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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If the "bad school" is essentially 40-60% high achievers and the remaining low achievers, then this isn't so bad.

But if we're talking FARMS over 60%, relatively high ESOL rates, etc., tread carefully as the administration may need to focus more on the at-risk students and not so much your kid. Title I aid helps,  but how much of that extra "stuff" goes to the at-risk kids?

Also, a number of things are just a crapshoot with schools (and neighbors, for that matter.)

The K class this year may have non-catty/non-racist yuppie parents, a number of FARMS/ESOL parents that are eager to work together with the yuppie parents in the PTA and elsewhere, etc., etc., whereas the next year it's the exact opposite.

Not saying the crapshoot is only in the at-risk areas.

In the wealthy neighborhoods, you might get a clique of SAHMs that ruin it for everyone else, or WOHMs that look down on everyone that's not as amazing as they are and able to have 5 kids involved in everything, work as a law partner, and maintain that rocking body with natural 34Ds.

That great principal who's able to life everyone up? Whoops, he just got promoted to the central office or an even MORE at risk school, and along comes some drone who either worships diversity or doesn't acknowledge his at-risk students.

Also -- consider what you'll actually be doing with your kids. Will you *really* need a Walkscore of 95 with eight lively bars, 20-25 restaurants, artisanal and antique shopping out the wazoo, etc., etc. or will you be as happy in practice with a Walkscore of 73, a couple of mild bars for DH (or you) to catch the game w/o having to drink and drive, a Giant, and a couple of places that're approved by kids between 6-12? [/quote]

This seems to conflate "high achievers" with FARMS/ESOL rates.

Lots of words above, but the overall intent seems to be to recommend largely homogenous, "down-to-earth" middle-income areas, most likely in the outer suburbs, where no one is too poor, too rich, too fat or too thin.  That might work for a middle-income government contractor or IT professional working near Dulles or somewhere along the Route 270 corredor, but not so well for people who'd have a horrendous commute if they worked in DC and lived out in Ashburn,  Gainesville or Damascus.  [/quote]

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