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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]One of the ironies of using white as a proxy for high SES is that there are some white people in DC who are not high SES. [/b]

As one of those families (HHI under 100k before this year, now slightly over), it’s tricky because while we obviously want our kid to get a good education, we are somewhat wary of schools where most of the white and Asian kids, plus many of the black kids, have what we consider to be wealthy parents. We love involved families, but are wary of a parent community that is going to make a lot of assumptions about what individual families can or should be able to afford/contribute. We run into this in DC a lot— fellow parents who assume everyone has the same ability to pay for food, activities, etc.

We are at a Title 1 now and really like it. It has a very involved parent community, lots of loyal families who stick with the school all the way through with multiple kids. One thing I really appreciate about it is that it feels like there are lots of families in our income bracket— middle class families in a budget who want what is best for their kids but do not belong to a financial category where stuff like tutors, tons of supplementing, etc. will be assumed. There are also some high SES families in the early grades, but they mostly leave by 2nd grade or so.[/quote]

Of course, there are some white families in DC that are not high-SES (by regional standards as least). But as a general matter, which is all that matters here, white folks in DC are among the most well-educated and well-off in the country. [/quote]

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