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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote] Nobody would judge the OP for wanting to look at schools that best fit her family's need. A BIG however is that if you say you don't want to opt in your IB school because it's 50% OOB then proceed to say you want to be OOB at another school, people WILL judge the OP. There is a big contradiction with what OP is saying she values. She would have been better to not disclose her values as the on crazy ass ones she did disclose make her look really bad.[/quote]

Yes, she did look silly and ignorant of the schools in general. But everyone assumed the reason she didn't want to attend her IB school is because she was racists/classist. What about the person in the Bancroft area who chooses to send their kid to Eaton? Why can't those motives be questioned? Maybe that person is afraid of Hispanic kids?[/quote]

Yea, I kinda agree here (and am one of the people calling her classist). If she is fine with eaton now that she discovers OOB only means, what, 20-30% low income and at risk (I don't know, just a guess), then she is no worse or better than most of us.  If she is still bothered by OOB at eaton even when she knows it means college-y educated middle-class folk who can't afford a house in boundary, then she's classist.  If she is bothered when she learns the high AA OB rate  (regardless that many/most AA OB are middle class) than she is racist,

But, yes, the middleclass OBers at Eaton  from mt Pleasant would likely be fine with Bancroft if it was just 20-30% low income.  That is what most of us want - a school that is diverse but majority middle class so we and our kids aren't in culturally alien territory.  Unfortunately, 70% of the kids in DC are not middleclass or above, which sets us all up for a scramble.[/quote]

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