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OP here, I'm not the person you're directly responding to but I wanted to address this anyway. While we are white UMC, I don't think that is the only relevant benchmark. My question truly was going to similarly-situated kids, so while the benchmark for my kids in that respect is white UMC (with some qualifications I'll get to in a moment), if my kids were economically disadvantaged and/or racial minorities, those would be the relevant benchmarks for me. When I originally asked the question, I was trying to get at all of these benchmarks, whether for individual children, taking their backgrounds as a given, does going to FCPS vs APS make a difference in the long run?  If there is a cultural reason that the Asian community in this area tends to be more drawn to FCPS because of the improved odds of getting into TJ, that's not relevant to my kids because we've made the decision that we specifically don't want our kids going to TJ (and no, not because of the Asian population there but because DH went there and he doesn't care for how tunnel visioned the school is on a certain type of academic achievement). If a certain portion of the APS population that's more likely to get into Ivies anyway decides to put their kids in particular private schools because they have better admissions stats, that's not relevant to us either because [b][u]it's a priority for us to support public schools by staying in them[/u][/b], even if the public school won't give the same edge on college admissions.

If there is a meaningful difference for similarly-situated students in a particular group, whether it's white UMC students or minority students or economically disadvantaged students or students with disabilities, that is an issue I would want to understand better, including how it could be addressed.[/quote]

APS thanks you[/quote]

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