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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If your parents are well educated and connected, and supplement at home and pay attention to what the school is providing, the kids will probably be fine.

It's all the parents who send their kids to school and don't care who are the problem. And, yes, there are LMC and MC parents who don't pay that much attention or care, because they don't think school is important. [/quote]

I respectfully disagree, as an elementary teacher. You are willfully exposing your child to near toxic levels of stress that NO child should experience. But children who have not had stable homes nor witnessed healthy relationships bring those traumas through the school door every day. Your child will hear language, see behaviors, and possibly receive physical aggression that is confusing and harmful. I would maybe be more okay with it in later high school when they have some ability to understand it. But no way in hell would I put my child into this environment before then. And let me be clear that it’s not okay for ANY child, not just those whose parents can afford better schools/neighborhoods.[/quote]

I'm a parent with a child (5th grade) in "high poverty" charter and many of my friends have kids in similar district or charter schools. There are a number of kids in my child's class who are tough (and have been for years) and are clearly coming from tough situations. Honestly that has not caused issues for my kid or any of the kids of my friends. My kid has had pretty normal friend issues-a group of 3 where the girl who gets excluded is constantly changing. One year they had a teacher who clearly did not have the skills to deal with tough kids and was unhappy and left the school after a year, but her teachers have been really good at handling kid dynamics. She did have a student teacher this year who told her class all about the time he was kidnapped at gunpoint (!?), which she had some questions about. I don't hear any complaints from my friends along those lines either, they hear language and see kids acting out but don't seem particularly bothered by it. My kid was upset when other kids were calling each other the n-word, but she talked to her friend about it, they told the teacher, the teacher addressed it.

Much more bothersome to me is the difficulty of accessing services for kids who are behind academically and the overall low academic expectations. As I've worked to get additional academic support for my kid, I've been told "well, our curriculum is so ineffective that you can't expect your child to be on grade level" and "well all the kids at this school are behind so you can't expect your kid to be on grade level."[/quote]

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