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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oh yeah, here's the exact quote:

“It’s fascinating to me that some of the pushback is coming from, sort of, white suburban moms who — all of a sudden — their child isn’t as brilliant as they thought they were and their school isn’t quite as good as they thought they were, and that’s pretty scary,” Duncan said. “You’ve bet your house and where you live and everything on, ‘My child’s going to be prepared.’ That can be a punch in the gut.”[/quote]

People took a dim view of that statement, but to me, it rung true. The sooner people wake up to the fact that basing your home choice primarily on the school cluster is a risky strategy, the sooner they will be able to make better choices. The fact is that, at any time, the maps can be redrawn, or an act of God or politics can force you into a different school, or-- in the case of Whitman-- there can be a steady decline until one day, the place has gone to crap. It's much better to have multiple plans for education in case one fails. If you stretch to get into a cluster and then need to go private, you may not be able to.  [/quote]

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