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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.

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.

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]I agree with this summary, though I would add that clearly it's not all white parents. If it were, schools would be either 100% white or 0% white[/b]. Ours is about 25% white and it's exactly where we want to be.[/quote]

It could still be all white parents, because you can only make the choices that are available to you. So in the real world, a white parent would choose the whiter school over the less white school.

I have heard white parents with white children, in real life, say to me (I am white too), "I don't want my child to go to that school because I don't want my child to be a minority in their school." There are various things I could say in response, but generally I say, "My white children have always been minorities in their school, and so far it seems to be working out fine."[/quote]

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