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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Liberal elite "diversity" = Indian and black kids with MD and corporate lawyer parents. Such phonies. :roll:

Or even better, some free lunch kids at a public school that your children never actually see or associate with because they're all "normal track" and your tiger cubs are all protected from them in honors and AP track courses.[/quote]

[b]Because it's only diversity when the brown and black kids are poor?[/b]

Here are the demographics of my kid's high school: 18% Asian, 28% black/African-American, 28% Hispanic, 22% white, 27% currently qualify for FARMS, 51% currently qualify or in the past have qualified for FARMS. And perhaps you will be surprised to hear that there are FARMS kids in honors and AP classes, but you shouldn't be. Do I count as a member of the "liberal elite"?

Diversity vs. quality of education is a false choice. In this part of the country, these days, if you're not experiencing diversity in school, you're not getting a good quality of education. None of us are doing our kids any favors by only sending them to school with other kids like them.
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Who said only brown and black kids are poor? Examine you motives.

And how do you know how many of the 27% of FARMS kids at your school are in AP classes?[/quote]

Nobody said that only brown and black kids are poor. The top PP said that brown and black kids whose parents are doctors and lawyers don't count as diversity.

I don't have any idea how many of the 573 kids currently qualifying for FARMS are in AP classes. Why would I? I do know that there are kids who qualify for FARMS in AP classes, because I know kids who qualify for FARMS who are in AP classes. And, actually, I also know that 40% of graduating seniors scored a 3 or higher on at least one AP class, and 50% of kids either qualify for FARMS now or did so in the past.

But, if you want to go on assuming that everybody who talks about diversity is a hypocrite, then go ahead, I guess. I hope you don't do it when your kids are listening, though. They might get the wrong idea about you, or about reality, one or the other.
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