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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Interesting article but a little lacking. They assume that it’s only white families who seek out schools with fewer title 1 kids. Simply not true. UMC black and Latino families also seek out those same school. UMC lack families are the least likely to consider a DCPS school at all and most fled to the suburbs and still choose that over DCPS
Or charters.  I don’t think it’s a crime for a parent to want to avoid many of the issues that come with a high poverty student population. I don’t think that makes them a bad parent just shows they are informed about the realities and correlation and causation Between poverty, low test scores and behavioral problems.[/quote]

I thought the article was interesting but fairly superficial. Agree that the real issues concern class, not race.

The author dances around the issue UMC immersion families often making these programs work by paying a lot supplement.  When you don't speak a target language at home, obviously the best way to ensure that your children speak decently it is to supplement what an immersion program is doing to teach them like mad, which can cost a bomb.  My family has spent 6 figures hosting au pairs by now to ensure that our kids really speak the target language.  Without the au pairs, the kids would only speak the language minimally, like the low-SES kids at our charter whose families don't speak the language![/quote]

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