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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hi. Yep, DS attends Powell. Just to push back on "everybody goes to [insert acronyms for your HRCS]"[/quote]

And honestly how long will you be willing to do that?  My neighbors rented out their house and moved close to Stoddert because they just couldn't stomach the local DCPS.  Another family sold their house and moved to MoCo.  It's really easy to say that when we're talking about PreK, but by the time you're staring 2nd grade in the face and the school just can't deliver academically, people decamp.  [/quote]

+100.  But I don't doubt that the academics are serviceable at many a local DCPS/Title 1 elementary school.  From what I've observed over the years, what drives many high SES parents out are threatening behaviors by low SES kids with tough home lives, a variety of paternalistic DCPS policies as interpreted by admins in schools where most parents are low SES (do as we say, we know best), weak extra-curricular options, heavy PTA responsibilities to get anything done, and the grind of dealing with reverse racism.  You wind up exhausted, and walking on egg shells at the school, along with your kid.  Life is short, and you have options, so you go.

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Right, it's the fault of the low SES people making the school inhospitable to rich people.  As opposed to rich people voting with their feet when they realize ... hey, what we provide to poor people in this country is pretty bad! [/quote]

Sometimes low SES kids really do make the environment very inhospitable to anyone with means or ambition.  It's called bullying and "snitches get stitches" and every other microagression against a quiet, well-behaved child who just wants to do well in school and make friends.[/quote]

My child was tortured by a very high ses child in third grade: a child with a mother on the PTA, a child who has been given everything she ever wanted. And my child wasn't the only one.

I have nothing against this child, as long as we never have.to deal with her or her family again; but the conceit that only poor children are bullies has to stop. Now, we are the only high ses family in my daughter's class. Guess what? No one is bullied.
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