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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't remember a financial disclosure statement requirement upon enrolling for my child's public education and I'm sure many of my fellow SWS parents will be thrilled to learn of their affluence.  SWS is primarily a labor of love for many families who've bought in and fought for the school's survival.  Granted it's not the most racially diverse school even with a physical IB extending across much of Hill East, but there's not a lot of ostentatious wealth either.  You sound like someone with little if any firsthand knowledge of the school.

Anyone can cherry pick numbers from the DCPS website (which shows SWS at 60% white for SY11-12 fwiw) and it doesn't substantiate your faulty premise.  I'm pretty certain if you took a cross section of any number of Hill schools and compared their PK4, K and 1st grades only you would find pretty similar family demographics.[/quote]

I'm an outsider to all this, but this PP inadvertently points up some interesting issues relating to race and class.  S/he is surely right that the cross section in the lower grades is comparable to that of some of the other Hill elementary schools, notably Watkins, 2 Rivers, Maury and Tyler SI.   What parents are going to beat down the door for at an expanded SWS is the POTENTIAL to keep the school largely high-SES (if not wealthy! this is a government town) up to 4th or 5th grade, like the Logan Montessori, Brent and maybe Maury in a few years.  Such a small program with such an effective PTA has a shot.  For the most part, parents who want this aren't racist (or they wouldn't live on the Hill), they're pragmatists trying to meet their kids needs in a city school system that doesn't do much at all for advanced learners/gifted students, which high-SES kids so often are...[/quote]

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