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[quote=Anonymous]^ OK, we hear you.  You make several good points.  I'm surely not alone in appreciating the historic perspective you provide.

Of course LT would be improved--dramatically--[i]by having more (white, affluent) families from the immediate neighborhood[/i].  Jut look at Maury, where DC-CAS scores leapt up 28 points in reading this year, and 19 in math, arguably because most of the kids in the large cohort of high-SES/predominantly white families who started in Pres3 in 2008 stayed on to 3rd grade.   There is no other plausible explanation, other than widespread cheating (not being argued in this case)for the sudden and dramatic rise in scores.  Even if you aren't enamored of standardized testing, there's no denying that it's a new day for Maury.

Did you know that Thomas Jefferson High School in Fairfax, where admissions are race-blind, only has half a dozen AA kids in its freshman class?  There are reasons that high-SES parents of all races are generally reluctant to send their kids to schools where most of their classmates (vs. kids in the building) are black and lower-middle-class or poor.

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