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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^Not necessarily.  When I got to a Maury open house in the spring the kick ass French-Canadian principal gave a great little presentation about how much better her low-SES kids are doing in a diverse school than when the student population was entirely AA and low-SES.  She came armed with a good many hard-to-deny facts and figures.

Many many things change for the better in Hill schools when most of the parents are highly educated.  Leadership improves, teaching improves, facilities improve, field trips are taken more regularly and are of better quality, after care improves, you name it.   Even JKLM have FARMs kids.

As a professional with two graduate degrees and a good job who went to college on a Pell Grant, you're never going to convince me that it's better for poor kids to stay in traditional public schools where most of the other kids are low-SES.  KIPP or SEED or BASIS schools with extended day/school years, a variety of special enrichment program, non-unionized teachers and lots of grant money maybe.  LT, no.

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KIPP, SEED and Basis have been well established to work for some kids but is not the panacea that is destined to fix education. Esepcially when they kick out /counsel out kids who can't hack it.

And also do you have proof that unionized taechers perform worse than non-unionized. Cause it seems like union bashing to me. [/quote]

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