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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It would be great if people who live in neighborhoods that aren't majority white or majority high SES would give feed back.

If you live WOTP or IB for brent and raging against charters...well, your point isn't really valid.  [/quote]

OK, I live EoTP, my IB is considered "transitioning" but so far thats just in PS/PK. High income tends to correlate with white in our neigbhorhood but we are definitely not the majority   The school is majority latino though even though no one can figure out where 300 hundred latino kids come in the catchment area.   Its really a mystery.   If we end up there for PS/PK we will live with that because its walkable.  However, by K we will hope to be in a charter for a better "long range option" and in DC that only means through 5th grade if we are super lucky. If we don't get into another school we will move.  No exceptions.  I think it was a recent WaPo opinion column (Robinson  maybe) who broke down the scores by race. AA kids barely hit 10% and white kids were closer to 77%. That is a grand canyon size difference that shows up in third grade testing but is must be present long before third grade..  Thats why we will bail.   I just dont see how one classroom can manage kids that may be 2-3 grades apart in skill sets.  If that means we move on to a to a school that is majoirty white or majoirty high income, then so be it.  Would we love a cohort of like minded families to "stick together" sure.  But I think people seriously undersestimate how many families that takes to turn it around.  I think it will happen but much like Brent its probably a good 10 year process.  And we don't have ten years at this moment in time.   And even now that Brent is fantastic, most of the top Hill students still dont' believe they have a viable middle school option and thats why BASIS is bascially known as the cap hill middle school.   Its why I don't think McFarland will be an option for last least 10-15 years as its only as good as its feeders, UNLESS, DCPS got its ass and made it a truly test in middle school. Its central city location would be a huge plus to a lot of parents.   And yes I have lived in the city more than "cup of coffee"-almost 20  years, three transitioning neighbohroods and two houses later I am still here.  I love it, I want to stay but bottom line is my kid has to kid a good education NOW. Not later. Now.[/quote]

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