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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And why does your kid go to Gunston, for the spanish immersion? Would you send your kid there if not for the special program? Having one friend or two is simply an anecdote. Obviously there was a reason for your friend to send their kid to Kenmore -a special program or something.

People make choices, and face it, and no one wants their kid to be in a low-achieving school where the only way your kid gets a decent education is if they are in the gifted program.  Sorry, color of your skin is irrelevant. It is an SES thing that unfortunately is more likely to involve kids who are not white. With lower SES comes all of the discipline issues and lack of parental involvement in the kids' education because the parents are working all the time and the kids live in poverty. There isn't a "danger" - it is use of resources from the school system and distraction in and outside of the classroom that comes from poverty.

Said as the non-lower SES latina parent in S. Arlington whose child attends a S. Arlington school.[/quote]

That just shows the blinders here.  You don't think high SES families don't have discipline issues/lack of parental involvement (because they're working so much)?  The stereotypes and bigotry here are astounding.  FWIW, I've heard that there are far worse drug use problems at Yorktown than Wakefield -- because of the high SES of families there, plus the pressures typified by the hysterical posts here on DCUM and exerted on kids there.

The DC of friend is at Kenmore, gasp, for the diversity.  Ditto for us at Gunston (plus immersion).[/quote]

Meant to say, "You think high SES families don't have discipline issues/lack of parental involvement?" LOL[/quote]

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