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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think you are wrong. Most people don't make assumptions like you lay out.  Very few do.  But what people know from hard statistical evidence us that a high percentage of low SES students ( of any race ) in the same class/ school means that the class or school is going to be involved, in fact focused, on a lot of remediation and discipline and other activities in order to make up for lacks in the households of many ( not all!) Of those students. This is the right thing to do.

This is not bigotry, racism, elitism or anything but sound judgement based on current evidence.   When the teaching style, school organization, curriculum, culture or whatever changes to make this no longer the case, no one will even check the ses percentages and test scores of a school because they will all be good.

Until that happens, please stop slamming parents for making sound judgements about what school environment is best for their kids ( high or low ses!)[/quote]

+1,000.  Thank you for this profoundly rational post.

I'm an AA parent who wouldn't send my kid to any area school or classroom where at least half the students aren't white or Asian.  Why not?  There aren't enough high-SES AA families in DC, or indeed the country, to give me confidence that a predominantly black or hispanic classroom would offer the rigor I'm looking for.  Yes, mushy minded liberal white and lower middle-class SES AA parents, kindly stop slamming others for using logic to dictate school choice.  Hint: my minority pals (doctors, lawyers, lobbyists etc.) think the same way, to a parent.  Ever hear about a rising China, a rising India?  We can't afford to dabble in mediocrity for our kids when highly-educated parents in Beijing and Mumbai certainly aren't going to.  AA kids who are well-behaved, well prepared and hell bent on achieving are more than welcome in my kids' classrooms.  Reality dictates that such children are hard to find in a US city with an ailing public school system and no GT education (KIPP doesn't do it for me).  I'm against an all AA Banneker in a big way.  I'm watching Basis for my ES age children, but if the higher grades are more than half AA (with race being a proxy for class in DC of course) in a few years, forget it.

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I am white but have an AA child and over time I have shed my rose colored glasses and have much the same feelings. I really felt that it wouldn't matter what the income level was and that it was likely a good thing to  have such a mix but after a couple years, I realize I was wrong.

The only area I can think of around here where there might be a high AA population that is high SES is in parts of PG County.[/quote]

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