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[quote=Anonymous]The MacArthur parent here- some of you DCUM people are so interesting.

We’ve been IB to Stoddart and Hardy for all of our kid’s life. Walls and Banneker are fine schools -they just weren’t good fits for our kid. I am sure some of you send your kids to private schools because the public option wasn’t a good fit for your kid.

One of the reasons we choose to live in DC proper versus the “good” suburbs is because the schools have more multi-ethnic students, are socioeconomically diverse, more women STEM teachers,  and have more progressive curriculums.

A relative of ours lives in McLean where their  kid goes to a HS where kids drive Range Rovers and BMWs. In middle school, the kids had to take a Virginia history class and visited former plantations? No shade on that HS automobile game, but it definitely creates a certain kind of elitist atmosphere. Plus, the plantation history thing is weird to me.

Our family is middle class (by regular U.S. standards, not DCUM where people think they are middle class if they have a $300K HHI). We think it will be a helpful life skill for our kid to be able to get along with people from many economic backgrounds and cultures. We think it is fantastic that at MacArthur, affluent Palisades neighborhood kids and kids from low-income families from other Wards are in the same school. Also, as someone who experienced a good amount of bullying being 1 1 of the 50 BIPOC students  in a majority White high school of 2000 kids in an upper class Northeast suburban town, I hoped for a different atmosphere for my multi-ethnic kid.
Everyone’s expectations and needs for their kid are different. I truly think that most DCUM
parents want great public schools for all kids.

The school is only in its second year. We don’t think it is perfect- no school or human being is perfect. Let’s give MacArthur time to develop and grow before final judgement.
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