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[quote=Anonymous]We've sent one and will send another next year. It seems like every year there are some HHI/educated families who will send their kids through MacFarland. Total kids like this in each grade like 5-10.

It was a bit like this at our DL elementary, which now to put it crudely has white family numbers more in line with the numbers of white children in the neighborhood.

I neither expect nor need a big change at MacFarland to have my second kid go there. First kid did great.

I believe that there will be a gradual change to support a persistent thread of white and other higher income higher education families sending their kids through MacFarland, but it will be very slow growth.

If you have a 2 year old, expect 12-15 kids out of 175 in grade 6 to be dual language MacFarland white kids by the time your kid is 12. For some that is an improvement, for some it is fine, for some it is not enough, and for some being a minority will never be OK.

The school is not magic. DCPS doesn't have that on offer. It's a bureaucracy. But it's been good enough, and first kid had great experiences and I expect second one will as well.[/quote]

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