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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The income distribution for dcps public school students is not bimodal.  There is a large number of economically at-risk students and then there are students spread across just about every single income step above that all the way up to very wealthy.  It is a pretty wide spectrum - lots of not at-risk but mostly just getting by families, lots of true middle class families, lots of economically secure but 150k does not go so far in major urban areas type families.  Lots of variations in the educational status of the parent(s).  Lots of variations in things like housing costs.[/quote]

This. The people who think it's just some very poor families and then everyone else is very well off are just very ignorant (and likely only interact with families in their same socioeconomic position and therefore don't think about or consider that anyone else exists).[/quote]

Or they can look at the distribution of income in DC from every source, see the barbell and make the appropriate inference. [/quote]

I haven't seen a single chart showing this barbell referenced.[/quote]

Got my cleats on to go to wherever you put the new post

https://ggwash.org/view/41080/heres-incomes-have-changed-in-dc-since-2000

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While interesting, two things:

1) Those graphs are 10 years old. It's not a big deal, you can pull the more recent census data and it shows similar trends, but it might have been nice to go ahead and do that. And,

2) While this does show a barbell distribution for households in DC, it does not show a barbell distribution for families in DC, nor public school families in DC, nor public school families at specific schools. Not every household has kids, and not ever household with kids sends their kids to public school. This particularly impacts households on the right side of the barbell -- while you can assume that every family (or nearly every) under a certain threshold sends their kids to public school (because they cannot afford private nor do they have the resources to homeschool), you cannot make this assumption about the highest income households, many of whom will choose private. What percent? No idea, but it's more than zero. Which means that for public school families specifically, this may be more of a one sided barbell, with an inverse chart that would show income distribution for private school families.

And on a school by school basis, there are even more variables. Even if you could show that public school families had a barbell distribution in DC (something that has not been shown yet), this is across the entire system. Specific schools have different distributions based on neighborhood and lottery patterns. A lot of schools are majority at risk, including some schools where the number is over 90%, and those schools absorb a lot of the students on the left side of the barbell. There may be a handful that have a majority of families over say 250k, but I think for that you are talking about a TINY number of upper NW schools in very wealthy neighborhoods with major IB buy in, absorbing kids at that end of the barbell. Private schools also absorb a lot of those kids.

What's left? Middle class kids. Lots of public schools in DC are full of middle class kids.[/quote]

Seems pretty easy to look at the Title I data to see how many kids are middle class.[/quote]

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