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[quote=Anonymous]This idea that access to Wilson, now Jackson-Reed, was premised on the "diversity" that crosstown commuter students offered has always been so patronizing and so easily manipulated by upper class people pointing at their neighbors while seeking benefits for themselves.

The Jackson-Reed catchment area is rich and white. It just is. If the school is rich and white it's a result of residential segregation. Why is there a need to create a Garden of Cultivated Diversity at Jackson-Reed for the benefit of its student body who don't see those people in the rest of their lives? Please explain. And please explain why the rest of us are props for your fancy people lives, maybe even "props with benefits."

If the idea is that the District needs a place for students to thrive who are wilting among their dumbass neighbors' children, why are criteria for entry being set around residential segregation, e.g., "Bancroft access?" Why isn't it family income or test scores or something else?

Residence-based access to a crosstown school, with the requirement of enrollment for at least a few days in a school in a particular neighborhood, is such a ridiculous approach to solving schooling problems.

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