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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]SWS has been separarte from Peabody for ten years - the sibling preference of the original white famillies is not the reason for the school's continued lack of racial diversity. [/quote]

The 4th and 5th grade has a ton of youngest siblings of IB peabody families who had the preference.  3rd and below looks a lot different.  The PK3/PK4 has a ton of Black children and FWIW, from talking to their parents they all seem very happy.

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This is absolutely true, plus 5th grade is half the size of 4th enrollment.   The number of upper ES kids connected to Peabody/Cluster boundary is small.  Those families have mostly aged out.  The younger grades are far more diverse.[/quote]

This feels contradictory. If it is only the 4th and 5th grades that retain the Peabody preference siblings (and thus, by your logic, tend to be whiter), and the 5th grade class is small, why is the school still 60% white? If PK3-3rd is diverse, this would be reflected in the numbers, right?

I'm the PP who originally brought this up and this conversation is why I say no one has ever sufficiently explained this to me. The Peabody connection really cannot explain on its own why the school has remained so white. I think blaming it on Peabody and sibling preference at this point sort of proves why this is an issue -- if 10 years on, the school is still so predominantly white, that it really looks like the community has not tried that hard to diversify. It also raises the question as to why this weird DCPS school (remember SWS is not a charter) exists to essentially serve a small, affluent, white community. Particularly when so few SWS students go on to Stuart Hobson.

It just gives me an unpleasant impression. I'm sure everyone there is well meaning, but this seems bad.[/quote][/quote]

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