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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a white parent - and honestly, I don't care what white parents want.

I care what upper middle class parents want.  I wish you could sort by SES of 150+

[/quote]This. People use white as code for high SES, which is not always true. Lots of people of color for the bill too.[/quote]

The reason for that "code" is because of the unusual fact that traditionally DC's white student population was almost exclusively high SES, so fwiw, if you sort test scores for white or ask "How are white students doing?" you can generalize "How would <<my child of any race or SES whose academic profile is the same as one generally/statistically seen in high SES kids>> do?" There are exceptions all over the place, obviously, but this comes up when people are trying to generalize and make choices from statistics. It is a quick way to get a snapshot that comes close to sorting for SES. How each parent uses those statistics to estimate how their own child might do depends on the child. And this general transference only works in DC due to its skewed white demographics. If there were a significant population of low SES white people in DC, it wouldn't work, and no one would be using this proxy. If/As the white population increases and becomes more economically diverse, this correlation will fade.

Here is economic demographic data from 2009 to illustrate the point: http://www.dcfpi.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/9-22-09ACSIncome.pdf[/quote]

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