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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sad, sad, sad.  I am a Brent parent very happy that I don't have kids in the lower grades where there is a lack of racial diversity and appears to be assinine parents who think that is the only way to ensure their brilliant kids learn something.  Turns my stomach. Shameful.[/quote]

Sad and shameful is what Brent was when I moved to the Hill a decade ago.  Rundown, neglected, a pit of poor leadership and teaching, not serving those paying DC income and property taxes on nearby blocks at all, and not serving its low-income, OOB population well.

I'm a high-SES AA parent with kids in the lower grades.  Perhaps I am assinine in doing my best to take good care of my children.  What some white parents don't seem to understand is that high-SES AA parents are generally more concerned about the black-white achievement gap than other parents.  We can't risk having our kids fall far behind peers in great schools because they sit in class with many poor AA kids who come from homes where little goes right.  The gap is simply too big in an increasingly unforgiving US economy.

Brent is the only Hill school I considered for these reasons!  If that turns your stomach, you're missing something.

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