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Originally Posted by undercoverbrother
A friend of mine is a vice-principal in town, and he contends that it is not class size, but teacher quality that has the greatest bearing on educational experience.
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The board of education rates school based on the number of English as a second language kids and family income. The less ESL and the higher the family income correlates with greater grades.
My friends that are teachers (two of them) bring two different perspectives: One teaches in a very low income area and she has to deal with kids not being fed and issues of abuse of kids at home, the other teacher has parents that are involved and helping manage the never ending events at the school.
School just started for my son, we have had three different events involving parents and students. The events were packed, volunteers made these huge 'parties' that really made school a positive experience for the kids.