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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just so we are all clear:

Wilson HS- 39% white (Racist)

Washington Latin- 35% white (Not Racist)
https://latinpcs.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/2018-10-29-Washington-Latin-PCS-%E2%80%93-Upper-School-HS-PMF.pdf

BASIS DC- 45% white (Not Racist)
https://www.myschooldc.org/schools/profile/138

Makes total sense to me.[/quote]

You can’t be that dumb. What is the difference between Wilson and the other two schools? Could it be that they’re charters and charters are lottery? Wilson is by property rights. Lottery for all HS would make Wilson in the same category as charters. (Not endorsing just pointing it out.)[/quote]

I don’t get a meaningful distinction.  Different methods of entry, so people get there by different routes.  One relies on some luck, and one requires restricting your housing search by geography (and probably settling for much smaller housing).

I don’t see some big moral difference.[/quote]

Ahh it’s too obvious and you don’t want to see it. I got it.[/quote]

Is it your belief that children of color are, year after year, exceedingly unlucky at the Basis and Latin lotteries?  Or, perhaps, is there some other kind of selection process at issue that results in disproportionately white student bodies?  [/quote]
Exactly. It fascinates me that people say that it’s racist for someone to move within the Wilson boundary but no one that cares so much about Wilson HS is not wondering whether there may be systemic or even explicit racism at work in shaping the student bodies at Latin or especially BASIS. The idea that the two most academically prestigious charters are so white is purely an outcome of random luck is ridiculous. And yet, no curiosity at all about the mechanism at work. [/quote]

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