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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Parents are not doing what employees should be doing at the wotp schools. 'Get involved' in your local school is code for contribute money and show your upper middle class face at school events. Both additional $$ and the social capital upper middle class families bring to the school help it to attract other upper middle class families. That's your job. Once the poor have moved on, the teaching and administration more or less look after themselves.[/quote]

I agree with this except for the idea that the current families need to or will move on.  These schools are not full to the brim with children in the first place.  If the families with prepared kids and higher educational expectations show up and participate in the school, all the kids will benefit.

As a parent at a WOTP school, I agree that parents are not solving educational problems and they are not driving the curriculum.  They are driving things like community involvement and the quality of afterschool enrichment.  They care about the curriculum and you can bet they are asking questions and informed about the schools, but they are not doing this work.[/quote]

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