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My kids have all attended DC public or charter PS and PK.  The majority of EVERY ONE OF THEIR CLASSES was FARMS/lower SES.  We have visited and looked at stats for practically every elementary school in DC (and especially the sought after ones).  Almost none of them have MAJORITY middle or upper class.  Yes, those numbers are growing every year, but the MAJORITY is FARMS at all the schools we've seriously considered.

So, given that, please produce numbers for how allowing a few parents who are MAJORITY with options (by definition: we can afford/choose to wait until K for child to enter school) to institute a policy that for all already in PS/PK, you have to start over for K.  Show me numbers that show that that change would NOT drastically impact the FARMS families who send their kids to PS/PK (since, again, they are the majority in almost every DC school, including charters, that I have looked at), and not drastically benefit higher SES (middle and upper class) families who are gunning for this policy because they WANT to keep DC home longer but don't want to be shut out at K?  Where are your numbers that FARMS kids are no longer in the majority at DC public schools?[/quote]

Aha! But can you show me that the MAJORITY of the families doing the lotteries are FARMS families?! We are talking about the lotteries, not attendees at public schools. My guess is that the majority of lottery players, both for OOB and for the charter lotteries are not FARMS families. Certainly for the "desirable" charters and OOB schools, FARMS percentages are plummeting. So it's a little disingenuous to suggest that reforming the lottery is by definition hurting FARMS families.[/quote]

Unless the schools themselves are lying, even the most popular charters (except YY, LAMB and possibly Stokes) are majority FARMS.  And so are the rest.

If you're going to dispute that you need to produce numbers.  This is a question I asked every school I looked at, which includes the most sought charters.  FARMS #s are definitely going down, but point to the school by school numbers that you see that dispute the info the schools themselves are giving out?[/quote]

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