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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hardly total BS.  You over-state improvements.  We're in first, hoping to lottery out, like all too many others.  
Yes, there have been a good many positive changes of late, but, no, Watkins doesn't appear to be on track to catch Brent or Maury in the higher grades.  There are far too many kids who struggle and disrupt for the likes of us.  Pullout high achievers and you're still dealing with some fairly low-achievers in the higher reading and math groups because the baseline isn't nearly as high as it would be if the student body was primarily IB.  If wanting more high-SES classmates, and a nicer building to boot, makes us racist, so be it.  
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Then by all means lottery out. I'm not a Watkins parent but that's too high a horse for me to not have an issue with. The kind of homogeneity you're looking for, on behavior, personalities, abilities and smarts of all kinds, just really doesn't exist any longer, for sure not in college and not even in grad school. (Poked your head into any of these places as of late?) For sure, you can seek it and end up paying to keep it real clean and simple but numerous studies will tell you that you're not actually doing your children a service by homogenizing his or her environment at every price.[/quote]

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