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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Something missed in all these discussions is that elementary schools are also about socialization as much as about education of fundamentals...I believe socioeconomic diversity is good, but I don't count diversity to be sending my brown upper income kid to a 70% low-income school even if the white/minority-rich kids are scoring high on state tests (which are really the bare benchmark of educational outcomes in the first place if you have higher standards). One, I don't want the prevailing perception to be reinforced to my kid that being of color means being poor. Two, scoring well on state tests is not the only measure of education, and a majority-poor environment leads to a certain socialization, i.e. day-to-day language, habits etc. A friend with a kid in a well-regarded DC charted that is 40-50% low income, recently commented to me how his kid within three months of starting KG was already changing his diction, word choice and behavior in a negative way.

In fact, poor kids seem to benefit inordinately from attending upper-income schools...see this article from today's NYT (there's also a lot of data out there on this)....I just don't understand these well-off parents sending their kids to majority-poor schools, b/c[b] if given the chance, many of the striving poor families would gladly send their child to be a minority in a high-income school[/b]....APS or not, I would never accept a school that was majority low-income for my kid...didn't work this hard for that...

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/21/education/lets-get-ready-offers-help-for-college-admissions.html?scp=1&sq=newton&st=cse[/quote]

this minority parent whole-heartily agree 100%[/quote]

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