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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This thread had scared me quite a bit, but now that school has started (my DC is in preK), and we have been to a few school's functions, I see that a lot of what's said here is almost hallucinatory.

Principal is nice, although not particularly warm (just my feeling, might be she is just reasonably  stressed out).
Parents volunteered to set up a new website. There will be a new grow your vegetables/cook your meal program, for which parents have volunteered appliances and cookware.
There is an active listserv and active parents community that cares about the school and the teachers.

All the kids I have seen ( black and white, young and older) seem nice and well behaved. The classroom we are in was spotless and very well organized. I really can not yet see one thing wrong with the school.

For the skeptics worried about IB white V OOB black issues: it is true that preK is almost all white/Probably IB, and later grades almost all AA (IB or OOB not sure).[b] But that goes only to show that *if* white high SES IB patents are so eager to exclude the "unwanted", all they have to do is enroll and there won't be one spot left for "the others". 
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Honestly, I love walking DC to school and hate a commute to school so much, that unless something really bad happens, we will be there for at least 5-6 years. I think short commute to school trumps absence of chess club or great AV system.

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Your way of thinking is so ugly that you need to have it spelled out for you.  It's one thing to want to retain IB families, or those who start from the early years (one of the secrets of the high-performing immersion schools is that they get their kids in young and educate them so that by the time they get to the testing years they know their students have a solid background).  That's not what you're talking about though.  It's something else entirely to see AA students as "unwanted" and "the others."

You're a really awful human being.[/quote]

For the record, that's not my way of thinking, I was echoing the way of many who have posted here. Perhaps you did not appreciate the irony in my post [/quote]

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