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It seems clear white families want other white families in their schools and are only willing to send their children so far from their segregated enclaves. There is a hard chicken and egg logic to this, but it's not just this.

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My child is at one of the charters on that chart of most diverse schools.  It's not only white families who want "other white families" in their schools.  Almost every middle class black and Hispanic parent I have spoken with has specifically mentioned the diversity of the school being important for their children.  There's a lot of research about how richer black families live in much poorer neighborhoods than whites at the same income level.  White families aren't the only ones who don't want their kids in classes dominated by children from low income homes and the problems that they bring with them (generally, of course not all).

[quote=Anonymous] no, white families want their kids around other committed children who come from stable, middle to high SES families. Im DC that correlates with race. [/quote]

That's actually much less true in DC than in most other big cities.  DC has probably the largest number of middle and upper middle class black families of any city in the country, except maybe Atlanta.  Convincing those families, who have traditionally mostly moved out of the city or gone private (discussed in another discussion) to come back to DCPS and charters would be a huge benefit for diversity of both race and income.[/quote]

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