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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oh my goodness!  Yes! Yes! Yes!!!  We left DC 1/10 "bad" schools for California suburbia 10/10 "good" schools and I have 100% learned that "good" is just code for white.  And not in a good way -- in a "we-are-better-than-you" way.  I WISH I understood this when I was at DC "bad" schools and I would have never left!  DC schools actually offered better education, more involved teachers, more whole-child mentality and more leadership skills/opportunities. "Good" schools are teaching to the test, privileged kids who all get a BMW (or similar) at 16 years old.  Luckily we live in an area with some (minimal) diversity so our minority kids are not the only ones but it has been VERY hard.  And whenever I raise any issues of racism/classism, I'm attacked as the one with the problem.  And I feel like screaming, GET OUT OF THIS SMALL TOWN SO YOU CAN SEE HOW THE REST OF THE WORLD LIVES.

Thank you for letting me get this off the chest.[/quote]

That's pretty amazing to find, given that only 21% of students in California are white and 55% are hispanic.

https://www.cde.ca.gov/ds/ad/ceffingertipfacts.asp

My kid's school is rated 10/10 and its 46% Asian and 38% white.

The top HS in the country and DC area happens to be majority Asian, same for the 8 elite NYC public HS which differs in that the majority of those students qualify for free/reduced lunch. To me this means that good schools are full of high achievers with involved parents and high expectations rather than code for "white" or wealthy.[/quote]

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