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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Rich families in DC send their kids to private school. Poor families move.[/b] Poor families who cannot afford to move need to take advantage of special programs within DC (usually targeted to black and brown families) to get a leg up. If you are somehow to poor to move but also white (a demographic that according to DCUM, doesn't really exist), you are doomed.[/quote]

Such an odd claim.  DS spent a lot of time at giant beach houses belonging to friends from JR when he was there. Our HHI is $500 K, and DS was the least well off of his immediate friend group.  [/quote]

If you have spent time in the private school world, you know that there is an entire level of wealth that does not exist in publics. At GDS, the median household income is $1 million per year, and there are many families that are well beyond that.

Past a certain threshold of wealth, families just dont do public. I mean, I'm happy that everyone feels successful and has beach houses. But there is another level out there.

-former private school teacher with kids in DCPS

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Sure but wealth means more than the top .1% of families.  Families in the top 10% in the DC are also wealthy.

I like the fact that my kid is not growing up in a bubble of ultra wealth, privilege, and entitlement in addition to a homogenous crowd.

We do fine without the above, don’t feel any need to keep up with the Jones.  The sign that reveals we have some money is our travel plans which is a high priority for us.  The beach house we keep on the down low.  [/quote]

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