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[quote=Anonymous]Continuing my post (Trinidad AA parent). Please note I am only speaking for me and my family. We looked at many schools in the area for pk3 a few years ago. We ultimately decided to go to a parochial pk-8 in Brookland. We have two boys - a rising 2nd grader and a rising pk4er. We wanted a pk-8 school . That was a priority for us. We wanted an academically strong school. We wanted a school where families had similar values as we did. I think for us (and possibly many higher SES AA families) it's not race - its socioeconomic status and values. Honestly,  I did not want to have to fight a system where my boys may be overlooked or have folks/educators assume things about them because of the color of their skin. We will fight for our kids as any family would but if I could eliminate preconceived biases and assumptions off the bat even better. I also wanted a smaller school where my kids would be known and their strengths and weaknesses would be identified. We were lucky in that we found that at our parochial school and have been thrilled with the education and school community. What would we have done had that not been an option? I really don't know. I think there were one or two charters we were willing to give a chance to. The likelihood is we would have looked at a more expensive privates and just committed our funds to that and less to savings. We were fortunate to have bought in Trinidad before prices went through the roof so we have some flexibility in terms of what we can allot to schooling.

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