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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are you suggesting that the comparisons of Janney to Hearst and Janney to Savoy are similar?[/quote]

Well, I am saying OP is judging this family's preference based on some line in the sand - it's ok to not want your kid to go to a very low-performing school, but not ok to not want them to go to a good-but-not-top performing school.  What "level"school is it morally acceptable to reject?[/quote]

Yes, but you are comparing a good-but-not-top performing school in a great neighborhood to a very low-performing school in a high crime neighborhood.  These are not at all comparable situations.

I personally can't wait until the test scores at Hearst go up (which they will) so that we can see what excuses the "non-racist" people in the neighborhood use then.[/quote]

Yeah, but its scores still aren't as good as Janney's -- why is that not a valid reason to chose one over the other? Why is she racist for choosing Janney over Hearst and not for choosing Janney over Savoy?

Simply because Hearst is good "enough" in your opinion doesn't mean she's a racist for choosing Janney - which is demonstrably better.  [/quote]

But she doesn't actually have a "choice."  She is inbound for Hearst and will never get into Janney.  So she is simply choosing not to go to Hearst.

I'm sure that many people, if they had an actual choice, would choose the higher performing school, and this doesn't make them racist.  However, I will add that we actually do have a few families who are in-bound for JKLMMO schools and have chosen to go to Hearst.  Some prefer the the economic and racial diversity at Hearst, some prefer the small class size, some just like a smaller school.  Not everyone chooses simply based on test scores. [/quote]

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