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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]High SES status is an advantage, not the disadvantage posited in the OP.

One advantage it affords is the ability to send one's kids to schools where the main focus isn't merely getting kids to pass SOLs and graduate, which tends to drag down all the students and keep top students from reaching their full potential.

PP knows this, which is why they argued for "balancing" the wealth and poverty at different schools, a form of overt social engineering that FCPS eschews despite its occasional left-leaning rhetoric.  
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Almost all differences relate back to wealth or lack of wealth.[/quote]

Assuming this to be true, one of these differences is the differences in school cultures.

Few believe that, as a general proposition, if you take two kids from families with similar financial resources, the one attending a lower SES school will fare better.  There may be exceptions, of course.  But you're tilting at windmills if you want to claim higher SES people are behaving irrationally when it comes to selecting school pyramids.  
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Bad culture is a product of poverty. Low SES schools are dealing with the byproducts of poverty which can spiral into all kinds of issues. [/quote]

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