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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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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It's really awful that happened to your daughter, and worse that the school didn't intervene earlier.  It still doesn't change the calculus that more people with more dysfunctional areas of their lives are going to bring those to the classroom than those who don't.

Sometimes the unarticulated portion of what a parent wants, is for the other children her child's classroom to also be reading and writing at on-grade to advanced levels, and have calm personalities because they have calm home lives.  It means the education experience is more conducive to learning.[/quote]

I find your assumption that lower ses people can't have calm home lives to be offensive. And quite wrong. I would never judge a family like this. It would be none of my business--and it's not true. As for advanced reading and math? My child will be doing that regardless. It is not very complicated.
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Okay, then all the sociologists who talk about the poverty of schools with a dearth of two-parent families who are highly-invested, and the dangerous conditions of their lives and school, are all made-up.  It's a bunch of liberal whining.  Stay in your isolated schools then, no skin off my nose.[/quote]

I judge people by their actions, not their incomes. If I wanted to self isolate into our exact demographic, we would be in Bethesda. Where I suspect we would find rampant cheating, anorexia, pot smoking and pill abuse among the high school set. All from "happy" homes.

You need to be happy about your own choices and spend less time putting other people down, bless your sad black heart.[/quote]

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