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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The real world bears very little resemblance to the population of most “preferred“ pyramids in northern Virginia.  My personal opinion is that kids benefit more from exposure to those who are different (both racially/ethnically and socio-economically) than they do from exposure to those who are the same.  [/quote] All the high schools have racial and ethnic diversity.  It is hard to get economic diversity - as even in the poorer schools, the well off are sequestered together in the higher end neighborhoods.  Also, all but one HS in FCPS have double digit or near double digit Free and Reduced Lunch students.  (not counting TJ)[/quote]

What benefit is there in economic diversity? No one has yet provided a clear answer.  We live in a world that is becoming more and more stratified with every passing day.[/quote]

How is this even a question?  You honestly see no future benefit in fostering relationships that cross the socio-economic divide?  Empathy for those who come from less fortunate circumstances?  Wouldn’t this be even more important in a world that is increasingly stratified?[/quote]

Despite lots of people on this site talking a mean game about equity and diversity, anyone with the ability avoids the poorer schools. Nobody is seeking out economic diversity. Those schools are regularly labeled as bad or low quality. That is not necessarily the case - those schools just have students who are starting from a very different (disadvantaged) place. For example, when Springfield is mentioned, notice how almost every poster on this site will be very careful to clearly state [u]West[/u] Springfield.

This site reeks of hypocrisy and do as I say, not as I do.[/quote]

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