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[quote=Anonymous]Apples and oranges.  The achievement gap is obviously much narrow for 3 and 4 year olds, the ages of the first cohort of in-boundary kids to attend Brent around 2002, than for high SES and low SES 6th graders.  Also, most of the IB families lived with a 10-minute walk of the school, not so for Jefferson. I don't think it was a skillful PR job back that drew families in as much as a high SES friendly principal and the power of interconnectivity in the neighborhood.  The principal was close to retirement and unafraid to make waves, and had a politically powerful spouse who helped her draw in resources to Brent.  Many of us got to know families who were trying Brent at Turtle Park, church, dance and swimming classes, CHAW or wherever else around the neighborhood, and were willing to give Brent a try because friends had become advocates.  Where are the parallel developments at Jefferson?  I see the link between parents of little kids unable to afford private school desperate to stay on the Hill and parents of 11 year-olds desperate to stay on the Hill, but it pretty much ends there for me.

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