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[quote=Anonymous]I have an almost kindergartner daughter and a son a few years younger.  I am so conflicted about what is the "right" school environment for them.  Do we send them to the more diverse, but possibly lower-achieving schools, or get them into the best academically we can afford (whether it's going private or moving to a different district) even if they are surrounded by mostly white students.  I went to DCPS, so I have that experience of the lower-achieving school but I definitely got a lot from being exposed to all kinds of different people (we were upper-middle class, but most of the other AA students in my schools were not).  And then I know plenty of private school kids who felt isolated socially due to the low numbers of AAs at their schools.  And to look at us all as adults, there's not much difference in the levels of success we've attained.  But of course, the perspective I have on all of this is 20+ years old - things have likely changed since I was in school, especially socially.  I know to a certain extent, we are going to have to wait and see how our kids do in school, but I was wondering how other AA parents have made this decision and what the results have been.[/quote]

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