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I think there is a tipping point at which having too many low income students may become a disadvantage to that MC/UMC child in the form of low income students needing more attention from faculty/staff to possibly not having a big enough academic peer group.

IMO, that tipping point is anything above 25 to 30%.  Others may feel differently.  [b]I also think some SES diversity is a good thing[/b], however, not from an education perspective, but just from a exposure to diversity perspective.[/quote]

A good thing, for whom? The major argument against high-poverty schools is that high-poverty schools are bad for children who live in poverty. Income diversity most benefits children who live in poverty. Is that the perspective you're talking about? Or are you saying that you think it's good for children from affluent families to be exposed to children who live in poverty?[/quote]

I think there are a lot of affluent or UMC parents who would prefer that their children learn to acknowledge and appreciate the privileges they have rather than measuring themselves against people with vacation homes in Europe and trips abroad every summer.  My parents are both UMC professionals, as were my aunts and uncles.  My cousins who went to private school (not in the DC area) felt like the poor kids at their school, despite ample opportunities, because they went to school with kids with private jets and multiple homes, etc.  My brother and I had different experiences at two different MoCo high schools.  My brother was invited to ski trips out of state by the families of some of his friends (and my parents were able to send him).  My friends' families did not take trips like that, though none were by any means poor.  What kind of expectations and assumptions kids grow up with are influenced not only by their own family, but by the kids and families they grow up with and around.  [/quote]

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