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[quote=Anonymous]The answer is a no brainer. Without a diverse faculty, you have no hope of drawing in many middle-class parents above pre-s/pre-K. If nearly the entire faculty is AA in a DC public school, commonly the case, it's a safe bet that upper-middle-class/white parents will largely shun the place for the elementary grades, perceiving it as a failing "ghetto" school. I'm of the opinion that failing to attract well-heeled parents does a school no good, aware that others strongly disagree. While it may be unreasonable for white parents to avoid schools with all AA faculties, it's reality in a racially polarized city in which upper-middle-class AA parents have collectively avolided public schools for decades. In gentrifying or gentrified neighborhoods, smart, visionary PTAs push to create racially diverse faculties to reach out to the IB population in the hopes of raising money/drawing in resources to improve facilities, leadership, teaching etc.[/quote]
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