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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just looked at the ITS demographics and given what I saw, I think some self-reflection is in order. And, I will just put it out there that I know a fair number of white, middle class  to upper middle class families at ITS who are social justice types but still felt completely comfortable  telling me they like being at ITS because there are so many families just like them.  And - I am solidly upper middle class but I am not white. I was offended and they seemed clueless about why I would be offended. So much for their BLM week.[/quote]

If I had said that, I wouldn't have meant not poor families, I would have meant not rich families.  I say all the time that I like living in ward 5 because there are families like me, but I mean middle class as opposed to rich families.  Take a look at the Cleveland park listserv and then understand what a relief it is to not be at a jklm school with finance people and big law lawyers and trust fund parents but at a school with people like you: government employees, teachers, non profit workers.

There was recently a thread somewhere about disappointment with having average kids and someone piped in not to worry, my sister is a teacher married to an IT guy and is happy, so your average kids can be happy too.  No doubt that thread was people who live in upperNW dc.  Now understand how happy you might be to find yourself among people NOT like this.[/quote]

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