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I teach at a small Alaskan high school not far away from Anchorage. My students are predominantly middle class, with a high percentage that are dependents of active duty military. About half of my students will have been in our school system since first grade, and the other half will not (or have not) spend all four years of their high school career in Alaska. Our school is both highly stable and highly transient. That dynamic creates a cohesion that, we like to think, leaves both groups of students better off for the mix.

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I teach at a small Alaskan high school not far away from Anchorage. My students are predominantly middle class, with a high percentage that are dependents of active duty military. About half of my students will have been in our school system since first grade, and the other half will not (or have not) spend all four years of their high school career in Alaska. Our school is both highly stable and highly transient. That dynamic creates a cohesion that, we like to think, leaves both groups of students better off for the mix.

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