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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]White parents are making decisions based more on the demographics of the school, its racial and SES make-up and not the actual quality of the education the school offers.

All other things being equal, white parents will always choose a predominantly white school over a truly integrated or majority minority school.  The social science research bears this out.

[b]White parents somehow equate low-income, high minority schools as "unsafe" or "low quality" when race and income has actually no relationship to the quality of the education a school has on offer. [/b]

The decisions white parents are making are based more on emotion and not on logic and rationality.  They will accept a large number of Asian students at a school, a certain number of Latino students, but have a low tolerance for black students.

These individual decisions, when carried out across the entire system, strengthen and reinforce the racial and socio-economic inequality that exist in society.   [/quote]
[b]Would an upper/middle income, educated black parent choose to send their children to a high poverty (50%+) FARMS school if they had a choice to send them to a lower FARMS rate school with a bit less diversity[/b]?
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Read the article by Nikole Hannah-Jones.  Also, there was an article in the Washington Post - and believe me I did a lot of reading prior to my daughter enrolling in school years ago (she graduates from high school next month) - that talked about the experience of a family in Alexandria that was trying to make the decision of whether their neighborhood is "good enough."  They made the decision that it was.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/sometimes-the-school-down-the-block-makes-you-nervous/2014/08/15/e8098c54-24d7-11e4-958c-268a320a60ce_story.html?utm_term=.b4c49c67c076

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