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[quote=Anonymous][b]The fact that most of the kids are OB is not some new thing-- you surely bought in to the neighborhood knowing that was the way it was.[/b]

Actually, until recently, IB parents who wanted their children to attend Peabody--virtually all the middle-class families with DCPS aspirations--could get in easily enough.  The LT district is full of families with kids at Watkins.

Many parents bought homes on the northeast side of Stanton Park believing that there children would attend Peabody, not understanding that the baby boom on CH would close the door for most.  That changed just two years ago, leading to a brief influx of a good number of non-black IB families to LT's preschool.  Suddenly, the SWS program at Peabody was out, 4 dozen new spots opened up, and most of those who had wanted in had a second shot.  What's ugly is that IB families are the odd ones out in a school dominated by OOB families and address cheaters, and that the school population (2/3 FARM) looks almost nothing like the neighborhood population (largely upper-middle-class), unlike other areas of the West Hill.  The concept that an IB population should have to wait a decade, as a Brent, to look a lot like the neighborhood population has become hackneyed.  Moreover, Brent has never had the serious PC Country address cheating problem LT has.  You aren't going to phase MD address cheaters out as long as their local grandmothers can get them in.

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