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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When my kid was in kindergarten (Richmond Public Schools) they pulled a few kids from each class out each day to meet with an assistant rather than hiring a 4th teacher. Somehow reducing the number of bodies in the room for a portion of the day helped them magically be under the standards of quality ratios.

I think you have every right to ask the principal why this is the solution (are there really ZERO teachers? Our urban elementary school was able to hire a bunch of 22 year old college grads and only has vacancies for things like long term sub). I'd like to believe this was literally the only thing your principal could come up with for the short term but it can't hurt to ask. [b]But ultimately, I've made my peace with the shoe string budgets, overcrowded classrooms, and other compromises associated with public schools. I still believe in them and want to support them, and I think my kids will be more worldly and flexible as a result.[/b][/quote]

They still need to be educated in the meanwhile, don't they? Sure, you can make peace with your kid lagging behind, but other parents don't accept this. The achievement gap remains for a reason. The parents who priortize education will make some alternate arrangements.[/quote]

The research says the opposite. There is no reduction in "achievement" for affluent children. I've spent a lot of time researching this. Case in (sad) point: our SOL pass rates this year range from 29 to 64, but our pass rates for white students (huge correlation between ethnicity and socioeconomic status here) were 95 to 100 percent.

It's highly offensive of you to suggest that my children aren't being educated or that I don't prioritize education. I just don't ONLY prioritize my own children. My values are communitarian.

The good news regarding the achievement gap is that socioeconomically diverse schools like ours do more to close it than additional financial resources for hyper-segregated schools, all while saving school districts money. It's a win/win. The only problem is convincing people to read the data and consider that their opinions might be more about protecting privilege than an objective evaluation of facts.

Here's some further reading: [url]https://kappanonline.org/integration-segregation-suburban-school-districts-montgomery-county-rotberg/[/url][/quote]

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