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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a probably half-baked theory (the “Watkins-Stuart Hobson Theory”) that the only high SES parents who are willing to send their kids to the higher-poverty schools are both progressive politically AND have rock star students. There are a lot of politically progressive and higher SES families that have students who struggle more, and I suspect many ifnot most of those families bail because of their academic concerns. Thoughts?[/quote]

No some parents are just racist idiots at this point.  Don't laugh but Stuart Hobson is at least as good as Hardy and will be a Deal before too long

Just look at the stats

Free and Reduced Lunch is in the 30s and dropping
over half of the students are getting 3s or better and there are more 4s than white kids attending 
In-bound is still low but rising

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I think some people are probably uncomfortable with the demographics, but I also think some people have kids that aren't rock stars or good advocates for themselves and parents are worried that the kid will get lost in the shuffle.  Our kid isn't a rockstar academically but also didn't bomb and was pretty quiet (so didn't get attention either due to positive or negative behaviours).  Kid fell through the cracks at a what's universally well-regarded elementary school and there wasn't enough going in Stuart-Hobson's favor to make us willing to give it a go.  All we really wanted was a solid school where there were kids that did excel and everybody else was on grade level (with a few not on grade level because that is just how life goes).[/quote]

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