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Give me a break.  Having lived in the Brent District for more than a decade, I know how relieved parents tend to be that hard-to-educate OOB kids are mostly gone from our neighborhood school, or going.  Why would high-SES parents want dozens of kids from tough neighborhoods at Brent?  Those who want this are free to buy homes in Wards 5, 7 and 8, or in nearby Trinidad.  Brent parents don't speak in these terms because it's not PC to do so in an urban setting, not because none privately long for the day when most of the low-performing kids are out of the picture.

What parents in increasingly upscale neighborhoods would welcome with open arms are test-in gifted and talented programs in which particularly capable and high-performing low-income kids sit in class alongside run of the mill high-SES kids, as in NYC and other US cities.  DCPS won't even consider such programs so here we are, competing to out noble one another on DCUM.  [/quote]

I think you must be representing more of the newer parents at Brent, not the parents who started Brent Neighbors nearly a decade ago.  Or maybe your own feelings.  My peers and I with older in boundary kids DO NOT share this attitude.  No one wants a majority of academically or socially struggling kids to make the class all  about remediation--that isn't good for anyone.  But  the early Brent Neighbor people valued/value a well-rounded and diverse school that represents the city we live in as a whole. That is simply the truth.
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Don't make this a race thing when it isn't.  Its a socioeconimic thing.  Its not about being elite or not or being diverse or not.  Its about having your child learn and not be distracted by non-performing kids.[/quote]Oh puh-lease! (different poster here) A kid who has trouble reading and is working on it is [i]not[/i] a non-performing kid - but you wouldn't want that kid if she comes from a working class or poor family. I really feel sorry for you if that's what you believe.

BTW - My kid was better off at her DCPS when she went to school with a mix of kids.  Like the earlier pp said, no, you don't want your kid to be the only higher SES kid but you do want a good mix of kids.  Helps children learn to avoid growing up into a snob.[/quote]

I'll correct myself on what I meant by non-performing.  Working on a reading problem is NOT a non-performing child in my mind.  A non-performing child is one that is more focused on skipping school, running with gangs, becoming a statistic as a single teen mother, etc, etc etc.  See also the original quote of [i]"What parents in increasingly upscale neighborhoods would welcome with open arms are test-in gifted and talented programs in which particularly capable and high-performing low-income kids sit in class alongside run of the mill high-SES kids, as in NYC and other US cities.  DCPS won't even consider such programs so here we are, competing to out noble one another on DCUM."[/i]
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