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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I mean, the scores of Asian American kids attending Kennedy stink, but they aren't surprising because Asian Americans are not inherently smarter or "more concerned about education" than anyone else, no matter what folks on the middle school magnet thread will tell you.

Because the student population at Kennedy is largely poor, the students have all of the same structural and institutional barriers faced by any other high needs student population.

It isn't surprising that white and Asian American kids in Potomac have high scores, and white and Asian American kids at Kennedy have lower scores - the only thing shared by those communities is a vague racial label. Everything else, including almost certainly parental education level and almost certainly ethnicity is different. 
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I'm not certain of Kennedy's boundaries but the school is surrounded by beautiful neighborhoods with massive houses on large lots.

I know two kids (one current, one graduated a number of years ago) in Kennedy's leadership program. Both kids and families liked the program and school a lot. The graduate went on to attend a top 50 university, did really well and is gainfully employed and living on his own, self supported.

My kids' middle school uses Kennedy auditorium for concerts. I've been charge of the bake sales at the concerts for the past 4 years and Kennedy ROTC kids always come help me carry stuff, set up tables, etc. with my even asking. Very sweet kids.

The past couple of years, Kennedy has run a free camp week for middle schoolers to check out their programs. It's called Camp Cavalier.[/quote]

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