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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You are supposed to what's best for you kid, not what's best for you. Don't say "it's a sacrifice I am willing to make"... It's your DD's future you are playing with. [/quote]

That's a good point. And I still don't understand the premise behind OP's sense of uniqueness.

Oyster Adams is one of the best performing schools in the city, and probably 60% Hispanic if not higher.Many anglos work hard to get their kids in.

Why would it be a sacrifice to send DD there?[/quote]

Oyster Adams isn't a Title 1 school, with only a sprinkling of Anglos in it. Her school is.[/quote]

Oyster adams was title 1 till about 5 years ago. And there were hundreds of people waiting in line for hours to apply, [b]most of them looking very white.[/b]

Again, what's the big deal.[/quote]

My guess is this is a different demographic than OP's school.  I'm no expert on DC's Latino population, but those I've encountered tend to be brown-skinned and from countries like Guatemala and El Salvador, in areas like Columbia Heights.[/quote]

Yes, clarification, Hispanic =\= Latino, and oyster has an unusual number of white Hispanics. Most Hispanics at the other DCPS and charter bilingual schools are Latino. You can also see a big difference in Hispanic percentage vs ELL percentage at oyster, whereas at other schools these numbers track a little more closely. All of which is to say oysteris unique. Fwiw. 
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Sorry, this "clarification" confuses things more. Hispanic and Latino essentially mean the same thing in the US. I am considered "Hispanic" based on US census rules, but I prefer the name Latino/ Latina, as it is more culturally relevant (for example, to include Brazilians).

And, I'm not sure you can say that "oyster has an unusual number of white Hispanics," given the diversity of the people I actually know going there and demographic facts. From Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispanic_and_Latino_Americans#Race

Hispanic and Latino Americans by race (2010)

Race	% of all Hispanic and Latino Americans
White	53.0%
Some other race	 	36.7%
Two or more races	6.0%
Black		2.5%
American Indian and Alaska Native	1.4%
Asian	209,128	0.4%
Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander	0.1%

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