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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yep. What SA lifers don’t know is that the classrooms and content are different. Everyone gets the LCD basic curriculum county wide. Easy to ignore 3 outlier kids who came in knowing the grade level standards which is what happened at our SA school.  Yes, they occasionally got more challenging stuff. But in our NA school they have a whole cohort (1/3 of grade?) that operates beyond the grade level. Kids above grade level or just kids not struggling get a better education in NA. Most SA schools are “fine” for academics. No one will get ignored or lost. But hard to get a lot of help in excelling because there are many more needs, academic and otherwise.  That’s just the reality.  Many smart kids if all incomes.  Not enough resources to “Personalize” learning for high achievers. People will say it was great for their kid, etc.  I can bet most of those never had a chance to compare to NA equivalent.  Maybe the difference doesn’t matter to some.  It mattered To us. [/quote]

This is why we can't let Key become a neighborhood school.  If immersion moves to ATS...the families left at Key will face the same issues.[/quote]
Doubtful - they will be at much more affluent schools with many more resources.  And moving immersion will allow others who do NOT have those things in their neighborhood schools to benefit.[/quote]

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