Reply to New to looking at Capitol Hill DCPS. Any majority high SES schools?

Forum Index » DC Public and Public Charter Schools

Reply to "New to looking at Capitol Hill DCPS. Any majority high SES schools?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]1 -- parent of a 5th grade student here who is apparently black and poor when I always thought that he was white and middle class.  Hmm.

2 -- strange since his sibling in a lower grade couldn't possible be black and poor because the younger kids are all white and high-SES.

3 -- We are very happy with the school, to include the 3rd, 4th, and 5th grades.  Plenty of challenge, pull out for extra challenge as appropriate, and a wonderful set of kids.

4 -- The 5th grade has, I believe, 16 kids and looks to be about 1/4 white.  Not sure who's in or out of bounds or poor or rich (other than us, apparently black and poor -- no one seems to dispute that we are out-of-bounds). The kids all seem lovely in my numerous interactions with them over the years.

OP -- you would be wise to look for a school using a broader metric, but you would do well if you chose Brent, despite it's generally higher SES, because it's a great school and a great community.

Now, I'm off to break it to my son that he's a different race than he had previously been.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics