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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Agreed but in DC race and low income has historically led to low academic standards and poor behavior.  Parents who want better get in OOB, charter, or move out so you have schools with deep issues that can't be fixed with token middle class students.  BTDT.  Your children shouldn't be guinea pigs or pawns.

[quote=Anonymous]For me it has never been how many XX. It's about academic accomplishment and behavior. [/quote][/quote]

By immersing your child in a homogenous environment of white, wealthy peers you are also using them as a guinea pig and a pawn, with repercussions that you probably don't even recognize.

There were plenty of f'up kids at my private high school and the worst ones were always the rich kids, most of whom started there in the early grades. The kind who drop their garbarge in the hall and then say "But Eduardo will clean it up."  Complete lack of self-awareness of their own racist and classist notions. Some of the public school transfers would joke that those kids needed to be dropped off in a poor part of town and we could take bets on whether they would make it home alive. But maybe we shouldn't have worried, after all they got left alone with a nanny for weeks at a time while their parents globe trotted. [/quote]

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