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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’d read about 1960s-1970s white flight in my history classes, and naively assumed we had moved beyond that sort of thing. To those of you who say you are not white, I would be careful about allying yourselves with the whites planning to escape the county. You may be what they are running from. [/quote]

+100. Tons of naive people on this forum. I'm glad the younger generation are more evolved. Signed, Asian parent staying put. My kids don't need an entire school of "smart" kids to help them do well.[/quote]

Oh please, Asian communities are among the most cliquish and tight communities. Just look at Potomac/Rockville and Boyds and Clarksburg. Your kids may not need any help at all when it comes to school performance but you probably “prefer” to be surrounded by a lot of smart kids. [/quote]

Ha, I'm the Asian PP and actually live in Clarksburg. The thing is I don't care about my kid being surrounded by tons of smart kids.  As long as the school has programs that will challenge my kids, then I'm cool with that. I figure if the program exists then there must be a cohort of kids who need it. Who cares of it's 60% or 40%. [/quote]

Oh, you would care! If only 20 or 10% of kids needed these challenging programs, would the school continue to provide them? And if they didn’t you know you wouldn’t send your kids to that school.[/quote]

No I don't. I care about the program being available. If it takes 30 percent of kids who need it to make it available then what do I care if the actual percentage is 30 vs 60. Here's the thing even schools rated on the low end have programs. Seneca Valley has IB for instance. I care about my kid and her ability to succeed academically so she can get into a good college. I don't care about the other kids. I know that sounds harsh but if people just focused more on their child and less on ratings and a school's avg test scores then parents here would save themselves from a lot of stress. [b]Teach your kids to work hard, study, hang out with the right crowd, and stay away from the wrong one. That's it.[/b] [/quote]

NP, and I completely agree with the bolded.  I think part of the reason parents want their kids in schools in which the vast majority are "high achievers" is that they think it will exempt them from doing these things.  That is, they think, "good school, my work is done."  SO many parents check out in HS and especially when their kid is at a "good school."  Of course, there's plenty of trouble to be had there, too, but I do think a lot of it the uproar is laziness.  What, I actually have to parent my high schoolers?  Yes.  Yes, you do.[/quote]

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