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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Having more low performing kids at your school doesn’t hurt your kid.  [/b]The biggest predictors of educational achievement are household income and the mother’s education level. Those won’t change for your family regardless of who your kids go to school with.

What bring more low income/performing kids into a wealthier school does, though, is expose those kids to more resources, and a parent body that has both the knowledge and opportunity to advocate for more resources for that particular school.[/quote]

Yeah sure. For example, getting paired in a project with someone who simply does not study at all, that  does not hurt your kid. It may be annoying but that is fine. The teachers and other students know how these kids do things so it is not going to affect your kid's grade. Ask your kids if they would enjoy that.

Again, low income is fine. Many low income kids do fine because they work hard - they may get achieve even more if provided the opportunities but even without those, they can do fine. I would think providing opportunities to them would be useful

But "low performing" kids? you certainly have more bad apples in that group.
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Sure, that sucks. My kids have had to deal with it.  That's life.  Hasn't that happened to you at work?  In college?  Do you honestly think that sh1t like this doesn't happen in higher performing schools? My kid went to an HGC, and this happened to DC there, too.  Didn't hurt my kid. In fact, it taught my kid to be more resilient.  I don't subscribe to the "lawnmower", "snowplow" parent where I think it's my job to remove every road block from my kids' successes.

Also, in HS, if your kid is high performing, your kid will be separated from the riff raff if your kid  takes AP/honors courses. No worries there.[/quote]

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