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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To 16:49.  I do not dispute that they were neighborhood schools.  I believe I stated that they were neighborhood schools that were essentially abandoned by the people who lived in the neighborhoods.  To elaborate, the people in those neighborhoods preferred to send their children to private school rather than the neighborhood school.  [/quote]

This is such a tired trope.

There is an excellent history here: http://dme.dc.gov/DC/DME/Publication%20Files/Policy%20Brief%201%20-%20DC%20Student%20Assignment%20and%20Choice%20Policy%20DRAFT.pdf

It's chock full of facts.

Here's one: DCPS enrollment went from 147,000 in 1966 to 72,000 in 2006. In 1966 the system was 91% black and 9% white.  In those 40 years, the whole system population collapsed, losing more than half of its students. The system lost 9,600 white students and 74,000 black students. To say that Deal and Wilson neighbors abandoned their schools is a gross distortion. The entire city abandoned their neighborhood schools.[/quote]

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