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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Charters that actually have some meaningful number of high SES or white families. I don't want my kid to be the ONLY white kid and at our IB, she would be one of about 4 white kids in the entire school.  I see the way the other kids act on the playground and the bullying she would endure is not worth the effort of trying to make the school work.     Hgiher SES kids tend to have significantly less behavioral problems. Another factor for charters that do have a higher number of AA or poor kids is the location.   Is it clear that the parents have to make an effort to get their kids to school every day> That usually means the parents also give a damn about education.[/quote]

This comment is ridiculous to me...racism is so real.[/quote]

Yeah, I read that earlier, thought of about a 5 page rebuttal, considered that it's so ridiculous that maybe it's a troll, and then just left it alone.

I went to school with some [i]very[/i] high SES (not just DC-lawyer/lobbyist high) kids.[b]  Many of the were dumb as rocks and bullies too.  Even worse because they knew they could get away with a lot [/b]since their parents' donations paid for my scholarship and then some.[/quote]

As I read your post, I immediately thought of these two brothers attending a top three private in NW DC. They are two of the meanest, nastiest, most undisciplined and disruptive kids I know. But, mommy and daddy pay full tuition for three kids plus donate a bundle to the school. High SES and white, but hey that's  all that is required for the original PP. [/quote]

You're not having the same conversation.  Rich, private school bullies are a different animal from low-SES, urban public school trouble-makers.  They're both horrible; but the former isn't causing a problem in elementary school at the HRCs.

Had the OP asked about her fear of date-rape drugs, then that would have been your queue.  [/quote]

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