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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a Latin parent.  I love Martha Cutts, but don't agree that the school needs a preference weighting for low-income kids; actually, if there was going to be "weighting" of any kind, then I think the lottery should weight instead based upon income categories so that any given class is no more than 30% low income, since according to research that's the tipping point where middle class parents will start to bail on a school.

After living (and paying taxes) in this city for over 20 years, I don't think that everything has to be geared completely towards DC's low income population.  The success of Latin (and Basis) has been the creation of non-WOTP schools which can attract and retain middle class DC taxpayers.  There are plenty of motivated parents (both white and AA) who cannot afford to live IB for Deal/Wilson and cannot afford $37K per year for private.  Just ten years ago, those parents would have bailed for the 'burbs because of schools.  Instead, those families, including my own, have stayed in DC, which is a positive for a city that used to be economically segregated to a far greater degree than it is now.  [/quote]

Well put![/quote]

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