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Old 08-21-2015, 08:24 AM
 
Location: Portal to the Pacific
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We moved from Ravenna, and the last thing I'll leave you with is that the number rankings mean very little when evaluating school. My kids were bullied relentlessly in a '10' school, and they're the gentlest, goofiest most loving children. But affluence sometimes breeds a certain type of kid. Not all the time. Just sometimes. And when my sweet, bookworm son came home bleeding I realized I'd had enough. I've heard better things about Wedgwood and View Ridge. I also think Greenwood is up and coming and a good investment. It's very hard to go too wrong here. Involvement goes a long way, as it probably does anywhere.
This was our experience with Wedgwood as well. My son is similarly gentle, goofy and very good-natured, but with the autism is also awkward, nor is he "cultured", well-read or artistic. He was rejected and bullied too. I think it's a great environment if your child falls into the narrowly defined mould characterized by artsy, creative, intellectual affluent parents of advanced maternal and paternal age. I frequently mistook parents for grandparents.
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Old 08-21-2015, 10:19 AM
 
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to avoid having them "exposed" to black people.
I'm sure that was some people's motivation, but the kids I knew that were actually pulled out of the public schools it was due to fighting.
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Old 08-21-2015, 10:29 AM
 
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I'm sure that was some people's motivation, but the kids I knew that were actually pulled out of the public schools it was due to fighting.
I'm speaking generally, not specifically.

Burien has the same issue. The town has physical beauty but the schools are BAD and it's not clear that they are going to get better anytime soon.
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Old 08-21-2015, 10:40 AM
 
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I'm speaking generally, not specifically.

Burien has the same issue. The town has physical beauty but the schools are BAD and it's not clear that they are going to get better anytime soon.
It's kind of wrong to characterize it as avoiding black kids, it's avoiding economically challenged kids with un-involved parents.
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