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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We make 325K and live in ACPS and were not willing to move to be zoned for a 'better' elementary school. As a family of color we were not sure that looking at test scores for affluent white students was a good predictor of how our child's experience would go, as we had concerns that teachers would have lower expectations for our kid due to stereotypes and our kid might be assumed to be only capable of performing at the level of many lower income low test scoring students of our race. If we had more time to supplement we probably could have taken that gamble, but we decided not to. [/quote] This is our calculus as well, as the parents of boys of color. It's a tricky situation when you have few same-race academic peers. And a diverse public school with a critical mass of black students operating at or above grade level is a bit of a unicorn, sadly. [/quote]
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