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[quote=Anonymous]^Oh give us all a break, almost all the high-SES kids at Brent are white and almost all the poor kids are AA.  A few of the high SES kids are Asian or AA (some of the most affluent families) or black but not AA.   That's DC for you, a traditionally majority AA city where rednecks can't afford homes.

I'm with PPs who think that "gifted" programs are the answer to keeping far more upper-middle-class families on board through middle and high school.   Most of the high SES parents will tell whatever story serves them the best about why they stay until they bolt, usually between 4th and 6th grades, or 8th and 9th.  Nobody enjoys being browbeaten by strident leftists with bulldozer intellects, so you keep your plans to jump ship to privates or the burbs to yourself.

I strong suspect that the researchers doing the studies on how poor and affluent kids alike accrue the benefit of "diverse" classroom settings haven't studied this particular city, the one with the widest achievement gap between low-income minority kids and the offspring over over-educated whites and Asians.  Even Philly, with a bigger low-income AA population, doesn't exhibit as wide a gap.  Yea, sure, great socioeconomic diversity works swimmingly in Iowa or somewhere.

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