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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP,

NP here. You are unfortunately not going to get any answers here, because no one is going to tell the truth.

People are going to lie and say that ther their child almost died or got raped as a result of their decision to let them go toa low ranking public school out of the kindness of their hearts, and that now they are thankful that they saved them by moving intoa good school district and living ina cardboard box to do so, because now there child is writing soliloquys at MIT. And that it was all worth it. They will abhor you to do so before it's too late, lest your own kid succumb to the ways of non-white/poor children. They will say you are not wrong to show this greatest of love for your child. In reality they need to justify paying top dollar and the "white premium" for the neighborhood and district they are in because they likely acted on racial fears by passing on those fears to others.

And then other people are going to say, it's fine to send your kid to struggling school, because they do the same and there kids are now friends witha rainbow variety of kids with diverse viewpoints and languages that enrich their child. They will say that where the test scores fail the school makes up for in community spirit, cultural activities and a walkable neighborhood. [b]They are lying too, because it is most likely that they are gentrifiers that lie about the quality of their neighborhood school so as to attract more gentrifiers so they can geta good return on their investment. [/b]But they have really just secured a small privileged space for their child in a school where all the other poor kids are struggling.

The answer is really somewhere in between: your children will most likely be fine because most middle class children with educated parents are fine wherever they go, because they are middle class with educated parents. Except some kids don't do well regardless of their environment, but parents jump at the opportunity to blame this environment rather than themselves. [/quote]

Huh. Is there much gentrification in Howard County?[/quote]

Nope. You see them fleeing schools that they fear will become too black (once the black population goes above 10-15%) rather than finding new territory to gentrify because they can't afford the areas already over-saturated with upper middle whites. [/quote]

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