Clarendon families seemed much more similar to our (white, middle class) family racially and economically???. and the school is a lot closer to our house... with a better start time (late!)??? plus we had a slot in the (excellent and inexpensive) afterschool program. (There was even a bus that stopped at our ???neighborhood??? school, Commodore Sloat at 9:00 on its way to Clarendon!) Everything ab