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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ah yes, a "good school" where everyone has high SES and  is demographically uniform.  "Good students" at a "good school cannot possibly come from anything else. Students in that bubble have little exposure, tolerance or interest in those around them from other demographic or income backgrounds... breeding the next prince and princesses of Wall Street and the tech world.  That bubble separates them from understanding.[/quote]

I can't think of any public HS in NoVa that is "demographically uniform" and can only think of two that have next to no low-SES students (TJHSST and Langley).  This is a very diverse part of the country.   [/quote]

Arlington has 4 elementary schools with fewer than 5% of kids who are FARMS, and two middle schools and one high school with fewer than 15%. That's not very diverse. The schools in Falls Church City all have fewer than 10% kids in FARMS. In Fairfax Region 1 alone there are four pyramids with similar demographics. Despite the significant diversity in this area, these schools are very homogenous. [/quote]

Yeah, I was referring to high schools, since it didn't seem appropriate to debate whether elementary school students were being groomed to be Wall Street titans, as opposed to being taught to tie their shoes and read.

To me, homogeneity connotes both similar SES status and the same race, but perhaps those who think in post-racial terms think of schools with fewer than 15% FARMS students as homogeneous, regardless of their racial or ethnic diversity.  [/quote]

Well, everyone gets all offended on these boards if you insinuate that they are interested in "good schools" because they don't want their kids going to school with Hispanic or AA kids. If it really is just SES, then there are some schools that have very concentrated wealth, and some with very concentrated poverty, and the school districts could redraw some boundaries or use choice programs to mix that up a little more. [/quote]

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