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[quote=Anonymous]NP here.  I am not white but I understand that it is easier to look at demographics in order to make a choice about being in a school with high achievers, etc.  I can't speak for others, but what I look for is involved parents.  The preschool and elementary school I send my kids to is diverse.  It is also filled with families who care about their kids and try to help their kids succeed.  In turn, the kids (not just the white kids) seem to understand the value of learning and helping others.  Take that into the older grades and you have kids who are less likely to get into trouble because they care and their parents care - regardless of whether they are in the advanced or average classes.

I can't completely figure out how the good kid/bad kid lines are drawn.  Some of the kids that are behind (not trouble) because of ESOL and just need to catch up.  Some are from lower socio-economic backgrounds where the parents can't be involved.  Some are just troublemakers and who knows why - maybe just personality and they may or may not grow out of it. So when you pull up the schools at a glance sheets for tests and safety, you have a correlation.  More white, less FARMS, and it looks better and safer so it seems less likely that your kid will end up friends with kids that will be trouble or not care about school.

I do have a friend who is in the Whitman district and who sends her kids to private.  I wondered why at first but they are not white and they decided that diversity was important enough to pay for school.  They wanted their kids friends to be high achievers but wanted them to also be from different backgrounds. For that reason as well (and because so far, I love the schools), I am staying east of Conn. Ave.[/quote]

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