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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I found it very useful.  Our hs is a 6, but that's just a reflection of the mixture of kids at this school.  Kids like mine pass their tests at a higher rate than other kids at the school.  That data helps me assess whether I want to send my kids there.  If kids from non-disadvantaged backgrounds are doing well, then I'm ok with it even if the overall score is not as high.  The schools with high overall scores usually don't have many disadvantaged kids in their data pool...so of course the overall score is going to be higher than schools that have a mix of kids.  If our "6" hs didn't have the disadvantaged kids, it'd be an 8 too.  [/quote]

The only people who care about the score are the those that are worried about education for their children, but not [i]too[/i] worried, so they just want to look for one data point on the internet and then sit around being smug. [/quote]

No, we just don't want to pay an inflated price for housing just so our kids are in a lily white school (or school where 10 percent asians counts as the "diversity").  We don't like to follow the crowds for a crappy house and an unnecessarily high mortgage.  [/quote]

LOL, yeah right it's  can't pay.[/quote]

No, -- we just don't want smug neighbors like you -- talk about making the case for staying away from certain areas![/quote]

Right, completely believable  :roll: [/quote]

New poster here.  Go shove your smug head up your ass.  Not everyone who can afford a giant house in a lily white neighborhood wants to do that.  Truly.  Some people - myself and many of my neighbors - choose to live in a more diverse area.  Not that housing is necessarily even cheaper than your bland suburb, but there are more options so you get some diversity.  And WE LIKE IT.  I know that must blow your mind.

Don't you have some Kumon Mom's Club meeting to attend?  
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Written like a parent without children in the schools yet. Diversity IS a nice idea, yes.[/quote]

Sorry, 2 kids in a very diverse elementary school.  Diverse and yet it's still one of the best public schools around. 
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Define "very diverse." Be sure to use definitions beyond skin color. [/quote]

Children from many different countries, many languages, many different skin colors.  Families live in a mix of housing - apts/condos/THs.  Also, a mix of professions.

55% white
12% AA
20% asian
7% hispanic
7% mixed

19% FARM

Great Schools = 10
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LOL at you think this is "diverse." Miniscule at-risk population there. 2% black and 7% Hispanic? Not a lot of Spanish in the halls, I'm guessing.

But, golf clap. I could see this meeting the "optimal" version of "diverse" to a high-income white family. [/quote]

Pp said 12 percent black, not 2 percent.  [/quote]

Yeah, that was a typo. Are you impressed with 12%? Plus 7% Hispanic? That's not "diverse." That's majority white with some tokens.[/quote]

So every fifth kid is a "token" just there for show?

The demographics at that school match up more closely with those in the nation as a whole than those at most schools in the area.  And, knock on wood, it's a high-achieving school, too.

If you have a point, you need to restate it, because your comments about tokenism are absurd and offensive. [/quote]

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