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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm black and live in NW.  I guess we're upper middle class.  I don't know of a single black friend or family member who sends their child to DCPS; we all went private.  There isn't just an achievement gap; there's also an [b]expectations gap[/b].[/quote]

That's the issue we're grappling with at the moment. Our IB school is always touted as "one of the best" but it has a low percentage of AAs and I'm concerned about the possibility of low expectations from teachers who might write my child off because of race. Not trying to cause thread drift, but, are you satisfied that your child is seen as an individual rather than a "color" at your private school?

As far as the achievement gap, are there studies comparing achievement by race in a single ses? It's easy to see why, as a whole, AAs or Hispanics might score lower. If you have one middle/upper class AA student with an A average being included in a group of 3 lower ses AA students with C averages, the result is going to be scewed towards the lower achievers. There's a larger population of lower ses AA/Hispanic students in DC than there are middle/upper class.

To the pp who visited an AA household and didn't see a bookshelf - did it ever occur to you that they get books from the library and don't need a bookshelf for the 3 or 4 books each child borrows? I've made the "no bookshelf" observation in some white middle class households as well.[/quote]

Another AA parent here.  The achievement gap still exists between black and white with higher SES.  The gap is not just about SES. [/quote]

There's a white/asian achievement gap tht persists too, that no one ever bothers about because both groups are doing well.[/quote]

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