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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the answer is that many parents seek a school with a majority of students with cultural norms that they are comfortable with, because their children---especially as they grow into middle and HS years---will start to look at their peer groups for those norms.  For example, I don't want my DD in a school where a number of her peers and the families of her peers are fine with early age out of wedlock pregnancy being the norm.  I'm not okay with my DC being in a school where a significant number of peers have family members who may be incarcerated.  Similarly, I don't want my DC in an elitist environment either, with peers who have an entitled sense that somehow they enjoy their privileged existence due to the fact that somehow they, or their mom, dad or grandpa, are better than everyone else because they have a larger bank account.  [/quote]

+1.  Agree.  There's finally a happy medium in the city at up and coming DCPS schools like Maury and Brent.  I doubt that we'll find it at the MS and HS level, but at least Maury will give us a leg up in the city for our little children.

15.21, no, wouldn't want my kids at a high-performing mostly low-SES school.  I went to that sort of school, as an Asian immigrant kid, and it's not our version of the American dream.  I think that you almost have to be a white liberal to think in terms of test scores being more important than cultural norms, to put "diversity" on a par with academics.  2nd generation immigrants like us simply want strong academics, extra-curriculars and facilities, with enough nice and hard-working kids in the mix in the upper grades to make it a pleasant enough place.  If the kids are mostly "rich" and white, so be it.  Our children will survive.

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