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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Its a private school type of area, private schools need support. I could ask why you are scared of handicap kids from the Lab school. [/quote]

Our neighbor's kid goes to Lab on tax payers' dime. The kid is neither disabled nor poor. The dad knows how to get others to pay for his private tuition. Talking about white privilege.[/quote]

DCPS hasn't voluntarily placed students at Lab -- or any private school -- in about 15 years.[/quote]

Just a note that Lab School specifically serves kids with average or above average intelligence, and mostly with language based learning differences. This is a group that public schools really fail to serve, which is how folks end up with private placements.

So, to the PP, a child might not appear "disabled" unless your version of hanging out with neighbors includes asking a child to decode a written text while you stand there. [/quote]

Most Lab school students do not have learning disabilities. They typically pay thousands of dollars to private school psychologists to put together tailored test results that will enable them to sue the city or county for funding to elite private schools like Lab. It's a more elite, more politically-connected version of a charter school that feeds graduates to certain private colleges. Look at the colleges that their graduates are admitted to. All you have to do is take a tour and ask for this information. They are very proud of their pipeline of white privilege. You can also take a tour and look at the students in the classrooms. The lower school classrooms are indistinguishable from a public elementary school in a high income school district.[/quote]

If you really want to see a racket you should look into the cottage industry of diagnosing high school kids so that they get "accommodations" on standardized tests like the SAT. [/quote]

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