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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm an OOB parent at an "up-and-coming" school. We started at this school because we lotteried into PK3 and we're staying because we've found other OOB families who are in the same boat as we are–neighborhood school with overwhelmingly at-risk populations coming from public housing. It's just not a good fit for our DC.

Most of the PTA leaders at the school are OOB and we find the IB population takes the relative-decently facility and with pretty-good teachers and admin they have for granted.

[b]So the real question for us is - why don't IB families contribute more time and resources?[/b]

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This is actually a good question because these families that have bought their way into a high performing school that would perform well regardless because of the critical mass of educated, higher SES parents.  The PTA $, after school enrichment has become some kind of status symbol, I guess.  But what really matters is they want their "purchased" education but don't want to contribute to the greater good.  These schools have it easier, they don't need to worry as much about pesky achievement gaps and at risk populations because it's barely a blip on their radar.  And in most cases they probably consider "accepting" what OOP at risk, lower performing kids they do as their contribution to the greater good.  I would be interested to see how well these higher performing schools actually educate that OOB/at risk kids over the long term.  I bet they do nothing toward shrinking the achievement gap because they just don't care. [/quote]

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