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[quote=Anonymous]This is a tired conversation, but it's what you mean by diversity. Some people use the word to say mixed demographically, when what it means for them privately is not overwhelmingly like most of the DCPS student body, which outside of Ward 3 is largely Black, Hispanic (in specific areas), and poor. Some people mean it to say that it allows their kids to be exposed to many children not like their own. Others use it, privately, to explain that the school has enough upper-income people who can function well in mainstream (white) society that they do not feel isolated when they fit in that culture. Acknowledge that most people in this discussion consider most DCPS school demographics, with their largely underperforming, mostly Black, mostly poor student bodies, to be a bad thing, and that that is what people are talking around when they are talking about 'diversity.'[/quote]
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