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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP, it's not "an attitude" or "values" - it's an acknowledgement of reality.  The studies and data confirm that if low-SES students comprise more than 20% of the student body, there are diminishing returns and increasing problems.

You can try and spin that however you like, but it doesn't change the reality of it.[/quote]

I read every post and can safely say I'm not the one spinning.

I'm still trying to figure out where to send my kid who's not yet pre-K, and everything I've been reading from and about the vaunted "west of the park" makes the schools there sound grossly unappealing.  I keep looking for evidence of inspiring teachers and/or principals and/or kids who go out and do fantastic things. All I keep finding are stories like the cupcake principal and an awful lot of whining and fearmongering about the certain destruction of DCPS if more brown faced kids are allowed to infiltrate public schools in Ward 3. Maybe there are just 5-10 people with time and motivation to hang out on these boards and +1 the shit out of all the "studies that show" you're absolutely right to believe that socioeconomic diversity is the first step in the fall of mankind.

I'm actually grateful to see true feelings revealed because I was about to drink the kook aid on JKLM schools (and the best little secret, Hearst!) but I couldn't put my finger on what made these schools "better" beyond test scores and families who have money for real estate but not for private schools. I can finally understand why so many go for charters, where the diversity seems appreciated or and even essential to the success of a school.

Spin that however you want. [/quote]

I will help you.  You can have an opinion on everyone else's opinion once your child is enrolled in 5th grade at a DCPS school that is not in that JkLwhatever bunch.  In the meantime, don't use an nasty anonymous forum like this to choose a school or try and figure out what is going on in the minds of the parents at a particular school. That is crazy-making.  Go visit many schools and ask many questions and keep your mind and heart wide open.  Know that your child, given normal developmental parameters, will learn do just fine pretty much anyplace for elementary school. He/she will get the basics needed to carry on a ademically and his/her success will mostly be determined by your attitude and actions at home.

The debate going on here is about policy level decisions that may or may not be enacted by our city's elected officials that could have some big impacts on the system as a whole.  It is not about individual school choices and it is definitely not about people's feelings about "brown people" as you put it.  K?[/quote]

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