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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^ One thing that is unusual in DC is that given its nature of being home to so much policy, research and analysis, there are more PhD's per capita in DC than there are in just about any other city in the US.  And, a significant percentage of them are white.  And, quite likely, in those highly-educated households, education is heavily emphasized and reinforced at home.  As such, it would stand to reason that many of the white kids in DC who come from those households would score quite highly.  As opposed to a white blue collar community in coal mining country, where the white kids aren't anywhere near as likely to come up with similar high scores.  There are a lot of factors involved.[/quote]

We're a black couple with doctoral degrees (Ph.D and M.D.).  We moved here recently from another part of the country and bought EOTP, in an increasingly affluent neighborhood.  We enrolled our child in PK3 at our neighborhood school, and we're working on increasing enrollment by neighborhood families, both white and minority.  We see increased IB enrollment as a good thing, hopefully leading to incremental gains in parental engagement, test scores, and financial support of the school.  Increased IB enrollment will likely change the racial makeup of the school a bit; not sure how much.  [b]Are we too gentrifiers?[/b]  I dunno.

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Yes, of course.  Not that it's a bad thing.[/quote]

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