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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous.  [/quote]

Your open-mindedness is laudable.  However, the since the situation you describe for your (presumably white) children isn't for the great majority of upper-middle-class IB families, in an increasingly affluent swathe of DC, LT remains a drag on the north Stanton Park neighborhood.  Given that very few white parents are OK with LT above K, let alone in the upper grades, how reasonable is DCPS' expectation of extreme open-mindedness to stay involved beyond preschool or K?

Brent's test scores for the two dozen or so white kids who've made it to 3rd grade have been great, with around half testing advanced, as they are for white kids in grade 3+ city-wide, whether they attend DCPS or DCPC schools.   It stands to reason that test scores lose relevance when Hill elementary school populations start to mirror neighborhood populatons.

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NP here. Since, as you say, Brent white kids test well, as most white kids in DC do, wouldn't it stand to reason that white kids at LT would also test well, regardless of whether or not LT mirrors its neighborhood population?  I note that in the upper grades at Brent, white kids are not the majority.  And yet they still do well. So it seems to me that DCPS' expectation that LT white parents stay beyond K is pretty reasonable.  [/quote]

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