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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oh right, to reduce the number of blacks.  [/quote]

Check off that box as "done". LAMB is 17.3% Black and 9.7% at-risk. West is 55% black and 38% at-risk. Brightwood is 20% black and 42% at-risk. For those neighbors who are concerned about "who" LAMB is bringing to the neighborhood, don't worry. No one is lowering property values by allowing a high performing school of mostly well-to-do non-black kids to occupy Kingsbury.[/quote]

We’re pretty comfortable with a diverse neighborhood and have no issue with school kids in the neighborhood.

I just don’t believe that LAMB is about serving underserved children.  It serves few economically disadvantaged kids and even fewer at-risk.[/quote]

LAMB definitely has as its core mission to serve underserved and economically disadvantaged children. They were just too good at it, and as a result, UMC people flocked to the school, apply in large numbers, and because it’s done by lottery, the demographics of the school have changed. [/quote]

It might be LAMB's core mission but that's never been reflective of their population. Even when they had less than 100 kids in the early years, the poverty rate was 10% or less. LAMB is "just too good at it" for the majority of the kids that it serves -- but, if PARCC is the measure, that's not underserved and disadvantaged children. [/quote]

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