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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do Maury and Brent parents seriously not see a problem with their kids attending majority white schools in a city that is majority-minority? I always wonder this about SWS too. It’s not that I don’t understand that it’s no individual parent’s “fault” that this is the case, but… doesn’t it bother you? Of course we all want our kids to get a good education, but one question I’d ask myself is what we are teaching our kids when we [b]tell them the best schools are the whitest schools. [/b]Do you not think they pick up in this stuff? Trust me: by MS they know exactly what the score is. That’s part of the education you are giving them too.[/quote]

What? Why would we be telling them that? I don't tell them anything about Maury's demographics and I don't tell them anything about whether it's the "best." Like, in what universe are a first grader's parents discussing with him the finer points of PARCC scores and comparing it to schools that he doesn't attend?[/quote]

to be fair - my kid isn’t stupid, and he may realize that we avoided the IB MS and HS - which are basically all black. It would be a conversation to have. On the flip side I’m planning to look into Banneker if they can be persuaded to accept a kid with an IEP (open question.)But at the end of the day, is this any different a conversation to have than to discuss why we live in a $1 mil rowhouse and not Potomac Gardens?[/quote]

The demographics of my kid's Hill elementary school (L-T) are actually more diverse than our street/immediately surrounding neighborhood. I actually suspect that's also true for many kids at the schools mentioned in this thread. 40%+ white or even 60% white is not *that* white... Have you looked around the IBs for these schools recently? (Although, I have to say that I wonder if the demographics have shifted at L-T in the last 2 years and/or if a lot of AA parents are not sending their kids in person this year because of COVID, because I saw the line at first day of school (K-5) drop off today, and those kids were not only 40% white...).[/quote]

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