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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yeah. Former SA parent at one of the schools mentioned. Now in NA. I spent innumerable hours meeting with classroom teacher, RTG, and principal attempting to get appropriate differentiation for my child. I can only imagine how much harder that is for a parent with an advanced child new to the country with language barriers.[b] But i moved to NA and I have not been involved one bit. My child is challenged by the teachers and peers. Night and day.[/b] There are crazy helicopters in NA and SA. But this is not that. [/quote]

Arlington Blvd is magic. Cross the golden road and all your child's problems disappear...[/quote]

Or stay and have everyone assume because your kids first language is English and they were born here that they have no problems of consequence compared to their poorer immigrant classmates and "will be fine" and can be ignored.[/quote]

Congrats. Now your poor child doesn't have to be ignored & victimized. Once the SA teachers got a look at your son's birth certificate, they knew it was ok to let him flounder in class. Being native born, they had no reason to care about his well being. [/quote]

It's not about "floundering." SA neighborhood elementaries are specialist when it's comes to floundering. [b]It's about accepting mediocrity from the most capable students in the class because ESL, SOL are simply a higher priority.[/b] No one will admits that publicly but it's just common sense and the experience of people who have moved bears it out.

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So the "most capable" students are getting mediocre grades. But yet, you know - probably because your child was one of them - that they couldn't possibly just be mediocre students. No, there must be another reason. Oh yeah, it's those darn ESL kids: they're sapping all the teacher's attention, and now she doesn't have time to bring out the best in my budding genius. [/quote]
Dp - you really don’t get it. Your kid will get high marks and fly like a super star... until middle. They’ll be the smartest kid in class. They will be unchallenged. And then you will be shocked at middle school. [/quote]

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