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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A question for the "I value diversity, but am fed up with  how DCPS treats high SES folks on the Hill and EOTP"

When you plan to move are you going to head to a NoVa or Md MS that has a high percent of lower SES black and hispanic kids - IE ACPS, southern part of APS, or (I guess) easter MCPS or south east FCPS)?  Or are you focused on the more solidly high SES schools in North Arlington, Mclean, Bethesda, etc?  [/quote]

Not the pp you're quoting but VA and MD both manage to educate lower SES kids way better than DCPS does! they also allow for tracking in a way that DC never would.  I know there's a different dynamic at play between the "at-risk" populations of anacostia and the FARMS kids in the suburbs, but the difference is shocking.  They manage diversity AND the kids can read... Imagine.[/quote]

I am the Alexandria PP and A. AFAICT while it may be that no suburban jurisdiction is as bad as DCPS with the lower SES kids (but er, PG?) I have not heard that ACPS is that strong on that, and I know FCPS is struggling with the issue - and anyway, my question was more aimed at the higher SES folks planning on or threatening leaving B.  As for tracking thats a mixed bag too - ACPS doesn't do much in the way of tracking (just some pull out TAG, IIUC) and I don't think APS does much more (though they do have HB Woodlawn as a MS alt) FCPS of course has their AAP centers, which does work as a track for higher SES kids at lower SES schools - though at the expense of 1. The higher SES kids who don't get into AAP and B. The profoundly gifted kids, who find the center classes filled with "vanilla gifted" kids, making them much less appropriate for the needs (esp the social needs) of the profounly gifted - at least till they get to TJ. [/quote]

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