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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sorry Not Sorry - No one wants their kid to be the sacrificial lamb![/quote]

Sacrificial lamb? How disgusting.

You are directly CAUSING the problems in the school system that other children are having but participating in extreme racial and economic segregation and then acting like your responsibility is some sort of sacrifice. All of you parents that are greedily and selfishly causing other people's kids to sink deeper into intergenerational poverty and redirecting resources from their neighborhoods and schools are creating the problems you claim you are "running away" from. You are actively compounding the legacy of Jim Crow and pretending like you are doing "what's best for my child." You're not doing what's best for your child. You're tearing other children down and devaluing them so that your "lamb" can be at the top of some hierarchy that YOU and your parents/grandparents created. [/quote]

I totally agree with what you are saying but PGCPS needs to step it up and improve the situation at the middle schools.  We send our kids to the local ES (GS rating of 4 if that matters) and feel good about that decision.  We didn't even enter the lottery. 
For middle school, we decided not to give our in bounds middle school a chance and our child is in the TAG program based out of Kenmoor.  Our in bounds school has terrible reviews.  I know subs who refuse to teach there.  My child would likely be the only white kid in the grade, they identify as LGTBQ and have anxiety.  I want to be part of the solution but I can't put my kid in an unsafe (physically and mentally) environment.

I have less of an issue with TAG programs compared to immersion/performing arts programs because most are located in neighborhood schools.  Kids who are not in the TAG program can get access to the more advance academic course work if the teachers think they would benefit from it.   Kenmoor is pretty racially and economically diverse compared to other specialty schools.  
Maybe these are just justifications that I use to reduce my guilt.

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