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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our liberal take is let it run out until it’s socially intolerable for your kid or there’s nothing they can learn at their school.

If we wanted segregation or higher rigor those things go together and are available to us but we choose not to take them until nothing is working.

This has served us through high school. We sympathize with those who have changed schools and ache for those who are going to have kids become underprepared adults.[/quote]

Curious what kinds of schools you've sent your kids to.

We are at a Title 1 on the east side that has an ok middle school and terrible high school feed. We do not want segregation but we are getting it anyway just not in the way we expected -- if we stay then next year our older kid will be one of 3 non-black kids in the grade. We love the teachers and have found great families at the school and feel the academics are actually really solid even if the school itself has low test scores overall (we've found there is a cohort of kids on or above grade level in every class and the teachers so far have done a *great* job meeting these kids needs -- we really do not wind up having to supplement much at all though I feel that shifting for our older kid).

We feel like it's past time for us to move but got very unlucky in the lottery this past year so we're giving it another year. But what we're finding is that all our alternative options actually involve more integrated schools at least racially -- all the charters and other DCPS schools (and suburban schools if we wind up having to move) have very diverse racial demographics and still have substantial at-risk percentages though nowhere near as high as we have at our current school. I feel like if we stay we will wind up in a super segregated school population but just as super outliers.[/quote]

Yeah, I laugh but worry we're so rare as to out ourselves if we explain who we are. We are in Ward 4 and middle school turned out to have teachers who care, teach well (a couple gems and a couple loser teachers too, which I expect is a widespread problem) and kids who got along with ours. Socially, our kids both fit in and do not in our communities depending on your lens because of their/our identities. In Middle School, the math differentiation was very helpful. For high school, we considered everything and were quite positive about the very specific programs at the local comprehensive high school, but it was hard to see our kids with kids who are very behind in every subject, hardly show up to school, and disruption being a social norm. [/quote]

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