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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Yes! Rich go to private schools and poor kids just get stuck with DC's finest. [b]We're middle class and didn't buy in DC because of the schools.[/b] [/quote] Why? Because you thought your kids would get "cooties" from the poor kids? Don't people realize that most kids from supportive, financially secure, educated families do just fine in DC schools? If you look at the scores for higher SES groups across DCPS, they are all pretty high. They are just in the minority at many schools so they don't show up in the overall school scores. It's the same as when the inbound families for Hardy make disparaging comments about the OOB families...what they really mean are the poor kids from across town--OOB could just be kids from Capitol Hill or Foggy Bottom--exactly the same demographic, just a few miles away. Ironically, many of those vilified OOB kids score higher on assessments than the IB kids. But feel free to use them as an excuse, IB folks. [/quote]
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