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[quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]Exactly.  And I do think there is definitely some nuance in what makes UMC white parents think a school is acceptable.  When you dig into it, you see that Beers Elementary and Miner Elementary have very, very similar PARCC scores.  And yet, Beers is a total unknown to DCUM and most white parents wouldn't even consider it as an option, frankly in large part because it is black and in Ward 7.  Whereas Miner is commonly discussed here as an acceptable option for ECE.  Or is the lack of acceptance of school like Beers because there is no discussion of it on DCUM compared to Miner, which might actually indicate that the Brookings research is onto something?  
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This is an example of where the obvious explanation is simply missed. Miner is in a neighborhood where we have a lot of posters whereas Beers is in a neighborhood from which we have very few users. People simply talk about their local schools. Not a surprise.
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100%. We sold our house in the Miner IB to a developer for almost $1 million. Miner is one of those totally non-gentrified schools with almost entirely gentrified areas within its boundary. Of course it gets a lot of discussion in this forum: it’s an IB for lots of forum users & it’s a school whose test results are concerning to such parents. It is *exactly* the school that people come to the forum to discuss.

FWIW I think the study misses the mark in discussing the Ward 6 schools more than almost any other topic. There is no recognition that the schools it clusters together are equivalent to the best schools in the city test scores/ratings wise (see Maury’s OSSE rating last time or SWS as one of the hardest schools in the city to get into) and some of very bad (see Miner and E-H that got focus $$ based on its horrendous first OSSE stars rating). They’re all discussed as though they’re one similar set of schools like the 145 Charters or the UNW IBs. It just totally misses the point.[/quote]

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