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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]The real problem is income segregation. In DC it is all rich white people, all poor brown/black people. It's not like that everywhere. I think here we correlate success to race, but instead it's really success to SES. [/quote]

DC also has plenty of well-educated, high SES black folks. For some reason, they tend to get left out of the conversation frequently. [/quote]

Not sure about this, percentage-wise.  We are a black PhD/MD couple living in Shepherd Park, where there are lots of this ilk here.  However, many of our neighbors put their kids in privates, so not sure how well this demographic is represented in public schools?  It may well be that public schools are more split along white & affluent vs.  black/Latino & poor lines--I don't have the statistic in front of me though.[/quote]

Your own neighborhood school (though primarily OOB) is 79% black yet only 33% FARMS.  Not all black students in this city are poor.  [/quote]

Yes, and Shepherd's test scores are a lot higher than many other EOTP schools--shows what can happen when race/ethnicity and SES are disentangled.[/quote]

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