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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP---back to the question at hand.  For many years [b]Eaton was the OOB school of choice for Mt. Pleasant families who were not enamored with Bancroft, which historically (as in for the past 20 years) has been a Title I bilingual school focused on meeting the needs of immigrant ESL children. [/b] Eaton was also popular with DC politicos.  Because the catchment area is small, and the housing stock consists of the apartments/co-ops of Connecticut Avenue and the Victorian mansions of Cleveland Park, there were not a sufficient number of IB kids to fill the school.

In my experience, the OOB parents at Eaton are in general as highly educated (though perhaps not as wealthy) as the IB parent population and every bit as invested in their children's education.  My fellow parents have included foreign diplomats, journalists, economists, Hill staffers/lobbyists, university professors, museum educators, as well as the typical DC lawyer types.

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So the folks who claim they bring diversity to Eaton were fleeing diversity in their neighborhood school?[/quote]

You are clearly not a dc native.

Until the last ten years or so, most families living in mt p, petworth, and columbia heights, where many oob eaton kids were from, were Latino or afircan American. Not white families fleeing east of the park diversity. The east of the park crowd brought Latino and af am kids to the whiter CP area to go to eaton.[/quote]

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