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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Honestly the fact that you all believe that your child will not do well if they are with low SES kids is a form of prejudice in itself. There are schools actually bridging the gap AND keeping your mostly average kids thriving, as well as the few gifted children engaged and learning.

The mark of a good school is not simply ‘how many poor, middle class, and upper middle class kids are there’ It’s how are ALL the kids doing, what programs do they have, the school culture, etc.

To be quite honest it’s likely your child is average, ‘the best’ light skin school won’t change that. Choose what you like but please don’t act like you’re doing it to simply further your child, you’re doing it due to prejudice and sometimes classism or racism. [/quote]

Oh someone else playing the race card again. So tiresome.  My DC scores 98% on standardized exams so no DC is not average at best and put in a school where the majority of kids are performing way below grade level, it will be a cake walk for him.  He just needs to show up to get an A.  That will make him lazy and not instill any good work ethics because he doesn’t need to work at all.  Also DCPS sure isn’t bridging the gap and that gap hasn’t moved much at all.

BTW here you go a report from FCPS.  20% FARMS is your tipping point.

https://www.boarddocs.com/vsba/fairfax/Board.nsf/files/9DG4KP71B0DB/$file/fcps_tipping-point.pdf[/quote]

Race wasn’t mentioned as the primary point but ok, seems you’re sensitive to that.
Also you did not read or unfortunately did not understand. Again, your kid isn’t outstanding, most people on this forum lie because the people with truly academically outstanding kids don’t have to justify and wouldn’t respond to this specific comment.

Also the statement was not DCPS, the majority of DCPS are not bringing the gap to a close. The point is some are and the mark of a good school is not how many whites there are, since you so obviously think light skin only means white. Even though on average Asian children do better than white ones. [/quote]

You were the one calling people racist for not sending their kid to a low SES school.  But of course you knew that and in Dc poverty does correlate with race.  And yes, my kid scored 98%.  Why don’t you name some schools in DC who has bridge the gap?

BTW I’m not white either.[/quote]

No, I said it was prejudice. I think you are racist though since you seem to keep coming to that point.
And I didn’t say white, I said light skin. Most whites would be happy to send their child to a school with a high East Asian population.

I also don’t want to talk about your child and your assumptions of how’d they learn in a different setting they haven’t even experienced.

Sure, Burroughs and Langdon are schools that are slowly doing that.

I can also say it’s not schools like Janney with no self contained program, low number of sped or ELL students. It’s odd, when you have students who start out with zero deficits how easy it is to make them average or above average.

I’d love to see an experiment where they make half the students low SES and add 8% ELL students, as well as a self contained program and see if those schools can still get the majority of those students to the same place.

Anyway I don’t think it’s bad for parents to choose whatever school, as long as your rich light skin school continues to get less money and title 1 schools get more resources. [/quote]

No, you said sometimes classism or racism.  So you are calling people racist and you do think it’s bad for parents to choose some schools over others.

At least be consistent.

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