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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Let's lay it out there, super-raw, and have other people qualify it around the edges:

Hearst has way more black students from east-of-the-Park and way fewer children of families with $1M homes.

Slice, dice and qualify it, and I'm sure your friend wouldn't put it that way openly in 2013 in DC, but them's the breaks.[/quote]

OP here. Thank you. This is actually what I suspected. I am reconsidering my opinion of this person. I don't know much about Hearst but this was my initial thought, just wanted to check with people who might know. People are endlessly disappointing me.[/quote]

It's probably a little more nuanced than that - SES has a lot to do with it.

OP, if you find this distasteful, you must also find the many people who live east of the park and send their kids to charter schools distasteful as well.  You're going to be pretty lonely if that's your criteria for friendship.  [/quote]

OP here. I would rather lonely than surrounded by racists or people who judge people solely on the basis of income (be it high or low!!).[/quote]

I don't give a damn about income.  What I care about is whether or not it's a safe and appropriate environment for learning.  Frankly there is school after school in DC with serious behavior and disruption problems, bullying problems, and outright crime problems.  Yes, some rich kids bully and disrupt, and so on.   The problem is that there's far too much coddling and far too little addressing the problems.  Compared to most communities around the country, kids in DC schools behave horrendously - and there's far too many parents who are in denial and who fail to realize that their precious little Johnny behaves very differently in school than how he behaves at home.[/quote]

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