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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.  Watkins/Cluster parents are more liberal than Brent, and,hence, less interested in programs to challenge advanced learners (ability grouping).   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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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]

As one who was in the revitalization group, you are right.  Holy crap.  This is not the Brent I or my kids know. I'm very conservative but am definitely not rejoicing that the school is becoming less diverse. I do like that we know have sessions for advanced reading and math.  Go figure my middle class out-of-bounds African American son is in both. I will continue fighting to ensure that the attituded above is not what will become the norm at Brent.[/quote]

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