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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree with you 100% PP.  My kids attended Lafayette and are now at Deal but I really wish the Lafayette community would have staked some guidelines like this and ensured that the school population would always be at least 25% OOB.  I know it's pollyana-ish but so many white families talk about wanting diversity, I just with they would put their money where their mouth is.  I didn't have the courage to call them on it.

(FWIW we are an IB AA family)[/quote]

so you would be OK with having your kid kicked out of Lafayette to make space to an OOB kid living in Brookland or Mount Pleasant (given the physical space in the school and the current number of kids at Lafayette, 20% OOB means some IB would have to go elsewhere).  or just the white families need to put their money where their mouth is.[/quote]

I didn't play out the mechanics of this in my head.  If this was a viable situation to implement, I don't think any school could turn away IB kids. So no IB families would be out of a seat its just that you could decide as a community that you would accept some OOB students. [/quote] Note, San Francisco has moved to a system where residents of the poorest areas in the city get priority to all schools, above all IB students.[/quote]

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