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Introduction	This blog shares some of my experiences and observations as a parent at Shamrock Gardens Elementary School, in Charlotte, N.C., from 2006-2012. Shamrock was a wonderful school, and our family – myself, husband Peter and son Parker – loved it dearly. It was also one of the many high-poverty, high-minority schools created as Charlotte dismantled its once-celebrated program of busing for desegregation. Seen from "The 'Rock" – as we called our school – the challenges and possibilities of high-poverty schools looked quite different from the rhetoric that at the time filled national educational debates. This blog offers comments based on experience, rather than the studies, statistics and expensive consultant reports that still too often drive educational decisions. I hope it offers you some food for thought. If you're interested in what's happened at Shamrock since 2012, please visit us at shamrockgardens.org.

Introduction

This blog shares some of my experiences and observations as a parent at Shamrock Gardens Elementary School, in Charlotte, N.C., from 2006-2012. Shamrock was a wonderful school, and our family – myself, husband Peter and son Parker – loved it dearly. It was also one of the many high-poverty, high-minority schools created as Charlotte dismantled its once-celebrated program of busing for desegregation. Seen from "The 'Rock" – as we called our school – the challenges and possibilities of high-poverty schools looked quite different from the rhetoric that at the time filled national educational debates. This blog offers comments based on experience, rather than the studies, statistics and expensive consultant reports that still too often drive educational decisions. I hope it offers you some food for thought. If you're interested in what's happened at Shamrock since 2012, please visit us at shamrockgardens.org.