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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]But can't she still have all of those things at the DCC school?  The county wouldn't be taking away her money or her car, just sending her to a different school. You could actually take a whole neighborhood and send them to a DCC school so that there would still be a community school.  [/quote]

But it would be so sad, if the rich girl couldn't have the over-the-top prom she'd always dreamed of, just because all of those pesky poor students in her class![/quote]

You're missing the point and focusing on the W student prom aspect.  Look at the bigger picture--why does the W student have to give up the life she is used to?  Why can't she stay at her school?  And while everyone is focusing on the W student going to the DCC school--no one is addressing the social/economic impact to the DCC student who is now at the W school?  What about that child's feelings?  How does that family pay for things that are the norm at the higher SES school?

I'm not disputing that the education provided should be level across the county.  I believe that all schools should offer the same courses and rigor.  If one school in a cluster offers Chinese, then one school in EACH cluster should offer Chinese so that all children across the county have access to a similar education.  [/quote]

Compared to the rest of the US, we are considered upper SES, but here in DC area, we are probably average.  That said, the school my DCs go to have some families that are wealthier than us, and some that are poorer than us.  That's just life.  Unless you are #1 on Forbes richest at all times, someone will always have more than you.  A teenager, on both sides of the SES, can deal with this reality.

I grew up middle/lower SES, and I remember not having any money on field trips, etc.. while my friends did.  It did suck.  But it was life.  I'm pretty sure my parents would have rather had me at an academically enriching school than a lower performing one just to save my feelings.[/quote]

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