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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Overall, [b]liberal parents but less so as the school continues to improve with every passing year.[/b]  We're pretty middle of the road and wouldn't have bought in-bounds this year if the school had a strong "hippie" flavor.  [u][i][b]Watkins/Cluster parents are more liberal than Brent, and,hence, less interested in programs to challenge advanced learners (ability grouping)[/b][/i][/u].   More and more parents could afford privates or St. Peter for ES but stay in DCPS on a year-to-year basis, partly to save for middle school, high school, college.  [b]Some of us are quietly glad to see the school become  less "diverse" and more in-bounds in a city that won't support gifted and talented elementary programs.  We can't see how our kids would be challenged in the upper grades any other way.  [/b]We're not conservatives, we're pragmatists.  Brent is retaining more high-SES families past 2nd grade than other Hill schools and that benefits the low-SES kids in various ways (PTA insisting on good principal,teachers, facilities).
  
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Wow.[/quote]

Totally agree with Wow - it's statements like the bolded that have the folks that originally revitalized Brent wondering what monster they've created.[/quote]

3rd the wow, but this is too idiotic to overlook.  Liberals don't want to see their kids challenged?  Stop by a school sponsored event at [insert one of about 8 Bethesda elementary schools] and tell me the political leanings of that group.[/quote]

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