Trinity - your ideal school sounds wonderful. For kids at ALL levels!
ACS - I agree with you. My son is at a regular neighborhood public school. We are on a waiting list for a public gifted magnet. The gifted magnet actually has more poverty and minority populations than our neighborhood school. And if public school doesn't work, I'd actually rather homeschool then send my child to a homogeneous, expensive school where I feel sometimes kids can get a sense of entitilement ("But mom - all the kids are driving Beamers to school talking on their IPhones!"). But I totally understand where people get to the point of pulling out of public school. I'm very new at advocating (I have a 1st grader and a 3 year old) and I'm finding it very painful. And the no child left behind hasn't helped the situation for kids on this end of the spectrum.
