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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]dude, you can disagree, but if you don't have the patience to read that's on you. I'm not PP, but the pointless insults are a drag.[/quote]

The insults aren't necessary (NP here). It is silly to argue that people who have kids in these elementary schools have "confirmation bias" about kids leaving the schools at 5th for charter middle schools. This might be true for people observing the 5th grade class from a distance (say PK parents trying to figure out what is happening, or a neighborhood family trying to eyeball what they think are 5th graders outside the school) and drawing conclusions from what they think they see. In that case, sure, I think you could argue that an observer might expect to see fewer white families or fewer high SES families because they expect them to leave for charters, and then simply see what they expect to see regardless of what is actually happening.

But you can't tell a family who has a 4th or 5th grader at these schools that they have "confirmation bias" on this issue when 7 of their kid's 10 closest friends at school are now at BASIS, Latin or CMI. At that close up, it's really not a question of seeing what you expect to see, because honestly, parents who stick around these schools for 5th are actively hoping for the opposite. If you are sending your kid to Ludlow or Brent for 5th grade, you dream ideal is that most of the class comes back for 5th with your kid, keeping the cohort together. There's no confirmation bias -- it is what it is, and both you and your kid can see what is happening.[/quote]

I do not agree with you that confirmation bias isn't possible if you are actually in 5th grade but I respect that you have a different opinion and took the time to express it. [/quote]

It’s now abundantly clear that you don’t understand confirmation bias. [/quote]

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