Which DMV middle and high schools are best integrated?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:DC first and foremost. Silver Spring. And Arlington just resegragated it's HS's--one has a PTA budget of 50k (few kid's on free/reduced lunch) and another has a budget of 15K (disproportionately free/reduced lunch)--you could take a stand and send your child to the integrated school that the Arlington whites are screwing. I would also look at Reston--south not north. They are pretty integrated. As for the people who are howling about self-segregation--it is called identity development. Take a class at your loacl community college and it will explain the dynamics you don't understand.

I find it ridiculous that anyone would suggest DC "first and foremost," knowing that white parents in DC won't integrate any middle and high schools in DC other than Deal and Wilson. So, yes, "best integrated" completely on THEIR terms, even if it means that most AA students in DCPS continue to be relegated to schools that have virtually no students that are not black or Hispanic.

Silver Spring and Reston, I could understand, but DCPS is the worst when it comes to integration. No other school system would tolerate what DCPS allows.

Ok... but what do you expect people to do? Send their kids to terrible, underperforming schools? Your child is not a political point.

If all the white people who lived in DC, sent their kids to DCPS, it would be a different district over night. New schools would be build, old ones renovated, teacher turn over would decrease, parental involvement would increase. It is not about your child being a political point, it is about parents teaching their kids about other people and cultures.

[Anonymous]

Move to DC and try public or charters.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Move to DC and try public or charters.

Yes, as long as you don't cause the school to pass the "minority tipping point," you will be very welcome!