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I’m the PP you are responding to. I attended segregated schools as a child.

I’m not sure what you imagine Hobson v. Hansen has anything to do with the Voting Rights act, given that the case is about whether the mechanisms adopted by an unelected school board to “cynically” (according to the opinion) re-segregate the schools in the wake of Bolling v. Sharpe were illegal.

However, the point that I was making was that the DCUM parents who take to this board every day to demand “equal treatment” - [b]by which they mean the power to reshape DCPS policy to suit the needs of 17% of DCPS students[/b] through a variety of mechanisms including eliminating OOB seats, eliminating feeder patterns that allow Black kids to attend NW schools, and re-introducing tracking — are likely unaware of Hobson. Of course, the specific mechanism would be different than Hansen’s “four track curriculum”, and would thus likely be legal, but my point was that lots of people who ARE aware of the history are skeptical of these parents’ motives. Particularly when, like me, they attended schools that were still officially segregated years after Brown v. Board and which — when they were forced to integrate —- immediately adopted gifted programs and/or tracking in which all the white kids magically turned out to be gifted and all the Black kids weren’t. [/quote]

Statistics regarding DCPS are always so disingenuously used.  They ignore the fact that less than 25% of the school-aged children under the age of 18 in the District of Columbia are very low-income, yet more than 45% of the DCPS population is.  That means that there are a large number of middle class families (of all races) who are not using DCPS for middle and high school.  Why?  Because of insufficient academic rigor and an approach to school discipline that does not provide educational environments conducive to learning.  Stop framing it as a racial issue---it is a socio-economic one.  The biggest users of the charter school system are AA middle class families who consistently have been ill-served by DCPS.  DCPS simply DOES NOT CARE about creating an educational system that serves the entirety of the DC school age population.  [/quote]

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