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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op have you read the book fortress of solitude? Part of the book involves the protagonists experience as one of the few white people at a majority black school. His experience sounded very isolating. Are you worried your daughter might exoerience that? Do you think you'd know if she were having trouble, esp as she gets older?  I was an only child in a neighborhood with only 1 other child and I was very lonely. When we moved to a neighborhood with tons of kids I was so much happier. I liked school a lot in both places even though the former was very diverse and the latter not - both school experiences were great but the social experience was so much better when we moved. It wasn't about race just about one neighborhood having lots more families of young kids. But places with better performing schools tend to be where you find lots of kids. [/quote]

I haven't read that book.

Look, I understand all the things that you guys are concerned about and the things you experienced. I'm not unconcerned about those things. I'm just not motivated to find a different school for DD right now when this one is working for us right now. Given that DD is in 1st grade, I thought that it might be relevant for families who are trying to decide whether to send their 3yo to their neighborhood school but are concerned about the social ramifications of being the "only" of whatever in their class.

Living in DC, it is a reality that many of our neighborhoods are highly segregated by class, which correlates strongly with race in DC proper. Anyone buying a house in DC and having kids who live in that house who wants to send their children to public school is likely going to be dealing with some variation of this issue. Before DD entered the system, it was still easily possible to lottery into a good charter or a WOTP elementary school, such that those things were reasonable backup plans if you couldn't buy a house in the good-school-wealthy-family neighborhood you wanted. That's just not the reality on the ground anymore. Most people entering the lottery now will be matched at their neighborhood school, and at least from what I've observed here, there is a lot of hesitation about that.[/quote]

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