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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]demographic comparison from 2011 DC-CAS...
My younger two kids go to a very high poverty DCPS school and since they are young (preschool), I feel like its in many ways an advantage over being in a middle class school.  Maybe they won't advance academically as much, but school when you are 3 is all about developing social skills.  ... Obviously the higher up in school you get, this changes.  Academics matter more and more.
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Then let me chime in as someone who does have a child "higher up" and share that the "maybe they won't advance academically as much" is untrue. This is not to discount your perception, as the socio-economic and racial composition of classrooms is an honest concern all around. As someone whose child can be spotted from a mile away in a sea of black hair and skin (other than official stats, I'm having a much harder time seeing the socio-economic picture), I have to say that I've come to understand that it truly does not matter on the ground. My child does very well, academically and socially, and has an excellent set of friends and opportunities in school as well as outside. What mattered in the course of the past few years in the all too soon to conclude elementary school years was the quality of the teacher, the leadership at the school, and the parental community supporting it all, the teacher/leadership part characterized by ups and downs in our case but overall successful. And we parents are happy with our pick because we're involved and see first hand what's going on; that too impacts our children positively, socially and academically. While I now understand what to look for better than I did a couple of years ago, I am not naive. I know that perceptions and fears like these stifle our all success. Fortunately, I also know that it only takes a few to take others by the hand.[/quote]

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