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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The other parents are at fault for not shrinking the achievement gap?

Not sure I follow your logic here.[/quote]

Sorry, I jumped.  The culture of the school -- admin, teachers, staff, families etc.  have become so complacent and turning out their students with the high test scores and doing things the same way.  They (including parents) think the school is so well performing, all of the inputs that some claim make a great school -- to OP original point about parents somehow being responsible for the quality of the school -- that it's taken for granted that early education success is heavily depending on the parents/quality of life.  So schools like the higher performing ones should be able to use their resources to make sure the kids who are starting at a deficit catch up because everything else is relatively easy.  But my guess is they probably don't and while the at risk/OOB kids have access to a better education that they would at a lower performing school, they are still left behind.  It was a messy way to try to emphasize the point that the higher performing schools/community serve only their own interests.
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I am totally missing the point of this post. Is it that parents in top performing schools have a responsibility to work on other schools too?[/quote]

EOTP parent here, I have a child at a high performing charter and also work on my neighborhood school. I don't see it as a "responsibility" but because I care about education here in Washington. [/quote]

How so you find time to work on schools your kid doesn't attens? I am too busy on multiple PTA leadership committees for my own kids schools, in addition to working FT.[/quote]

I guess I just multitask better than you, I'm not sure what you want to know. You obviously don't want to do other volunteer work outside your kids school- that's ok.  But, you are never to busy to take on a project you care about. It's just something you don't care about.  You probably volunteer somewhere that isn't totally selfish - right?[/quote]

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