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PP, in your obsession with diversity it's funny that the only category you didn't mention is socioeconomic, which is of course the only one that really matters any more. Perhaps that is because, for all the ballyhooing, B is still not a magnet for families from, shall we say, east of the Park?[/quote]

LOL. long, long, post and do leave a few things out. Per their website and financial statements to the IRS, Beauvoir awards FA to about 27% of its applicants. - signed and "east of the park " family, of which I know of at least 20 others in DC's grade alone.[/quote]

How many of these 27% of families getting FA are in the $90-100K HHI range, and getting a few thousand in FA, though? And how many are $30-50K families getting 100% FA, and nobody in the family has been to college? On the General Discussion forum - someone, maybe you, you sound like the same rightwinger - was trying to make the point that at Chevy Chase Elementary School there were "only" 9% FARMS kids. But to get FARMS, you need to have income not more than 185% of the poverty line (the poverty line is around $24 for a family of four, so this is income of maybe  $50K). So effectively, the 9% FARMS kids at Chevy Chase ES have HHI of less than $50K and would be the kids who would need 100% FA at any private school. Now THAT's diversity, even at a Chevy Chase public.[/quote]

PP, there are many great schools in Washington. The OP family has already likely chosen( unless you are the OP posting a troll thread). I think that your screechy defensiveness about GDS pretty much proves my point about the school. Do you mesna to display that on DCUM's where maybe it will be read each year by some ?

All the schools in Washington offer FA, all have a lot of diversity of every kind. Truly, it is not 1945 anymore( when GDS was founded to combat racism in admissions). The world has moved on largely due to the draw of Fed gov't, the increasing size of Executive branch of gov't and the Private school's incresing dependance on non-profit status to manintain their budget. These are realities taht drive the change and they are far more secure determinants of diversity than the mission statement of any school will ever be.

I find it odd that as much as you claim to passionately care about not stereotyping, every time you post about Beauvoir you do just that.  Perhaps, deep down, you wish this town still operated the way it did in the 1940's and 1950"s as , that way,it would allow  your sanctimony to go unchallenged.

Good luck to the OP ( if she is actually a parent of a child with this decision to make)[/quote]

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