"Fly-by-Night CC" wrote in message
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We are not a middle or upper income neighborhood - quite the contrary as
more then 62% of our 390-ish students are federally defined as
economically disadvantaged.


You get more money that way. Federal money doesn't have to go through the
local taxpayers for approval.

Of course I never believed the "depraved on account of he's deprived"
argument, either. Some of the nicest and most motivated kids wore clothes
that St Vinnies had declared unsaleable.