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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The better question is why do so few Asian families with school-age children live in the District and enroll in our public schools, when MoCo communities just a few miles from the DC line are is home to around 30,000 Asians, mostly Chinese immigrants.

Asian immigrant parents (like my own) are rarely fired up about school diversity. They simply want high-performing schools, particularly for STEM subjects. It's an obvious chicken-and-egg dilemma. Honors for All at Wilson and the chance to lottery into charters like BASIS just don't attract many Asian families.

At our DCPS, where we've had children for 7 years now, we've seen the Asian student percentage rise from less than 1% to around 5% in the last five years.  When by-right schools reach a critical mass of performance, the Asian parents come.[/quote]

+1. Why live in DC when VA and MD have some of the best public schools in the country? Only way this makes sense is if you send your kids to private school.[/quote]

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