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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I found it very useful.  Our hs is a 6, but that's just a reflection of the mixture of kids at this school.  Kids like mine pass their tests at a higher rate than other kids at the school.  That data helps me assess whether I want to send my kids there.  If kids from non-disadvantaged backgrounds are doing well, then I'm ok with it even if the overall score is not as high.  The schools with high overall scores usually don't have many disadvantaged kids in their data pool...so of course the overall score is going to be higher than schools that have a mix of kids.  If our "6" hs didn't have the disadvantaged kids, it'd be an 8 too.  [/quote]

The only people who care about the score are the those that are worried about education for their children, but not [i]too[/i] worried, so they just want to look for one data point on the internet and then sit around being smug. [/quote]

No, we just don't want to pay an inflated price for housing just so our kids are in a lily white school (or school where 10 percent asians counts as the "diversity").  We don't like to follow the crowds for a crappy house and an unnecessarily high mortgage.  [/quote]

LOL, yeah right it's  can't pay.[/quote]

No, -- we just don't want smug neighbors like you -- talk about making the case for staying away from certain areas![/quote]

Right, completely believable  :roll: [/quote]

New poster here.  Go shove your smug head up your ass.  Not everyone who can afford a giant house in a lily white neighborhood wants to do that.  Truly.  Some people - myself and many of my neighbors - choose to live in a more diverse area.  Not that housing is necessarily even cheaper than your bland suburb, but there are more options so you get some diversity.  And WE LIKE IT.  I know that must blow your mind.

Don't you have some Kumon Mom's Club meeting to attend?  
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The amount of hate towards on DCUM towards white people is pretty ridiculous. Why is it automatically assumed that a white neighborhood is bad?[/quote]

Huh? Where do you get the hate for white people?  I said we wanted diverse - which means we want to throw some white people in the mix too.  Just not lily white (99.9999% white).

Mostly I'm annoyed at PP who thinks that anyone who can afford to lily white automatically prefers that environment. And then continued to mock the other PP. 
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I am not sure there are any expensive lilly white 99.999% white neighborhoods, maybe you are thinking about southern Virginia where there is less diversity? Every neighborhood in the DC area with a high great school rating tend to be at least 20-40% minority. Thanks for the uneducated stereotype.[/quote]

RIIIIGHT!  Like Langley and McLean are 20-40%  "minority"????  you mean the high SES Asians "count" as acceptable "minorities" in your area.  (you just don't want minorities like hispanics or black folks).  I just laugh at people like you.  Yeah-- those 6% of black and hispanic kids at Langley (that's a combined percentage) really add "diversity"!  Right.[/quote]

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