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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So apparently the parents who live inbounds for Brent are all virtuous, altruistic, and kind, whereas those IB for LT are racist, classist, mean-spirited, and exclusionary.

Seems rather unlikely.  [/quote]
Noooooooo, the parents at L-T [b]are lazy and entitled[/b]; they want a school like Brent or Maury without putting in any of the work. To be fair, it's way more work than I would be able to put into my neighborhood school, either.[/quote]

To be fair, it's not about "lazy" or "entitled", it's about what's called "relative deprivation" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relative_deprivation), the feeling of "relatively" being much worse off by comparison to something that's much better (or thought to be much better!), and to which one feels entitled to.[/quote]

Okay, this is just crazy.  Shouldn't everyone feel [b]"entitled" to a decent education[/b] for our children? Good grief.  What a sad state of affairs.[/quote]

If you find my "to be fair" statement offensive, then you're a great example of "relative deprivation". This school, and many others in DCPS, are by far better off than what we encountered at our now sought-after DCPS a few years back. Yet, you decry it as sup-par, not "decent", exactly because you feel 'relatively deprived'.[/quote]

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