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[quote=Anonymous][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]

You are the only one trying to play the race card and make it about racism.

Here is the definition of diverse:

1.
showing a great deal of variety; very different:
"subjects as diverse as architecture, language teaching, and the physical sciences"

2.
including or involving people from a range of different social and ethnic backgrounds and of different genders, sexual orientations, etc.:
"our company is an equal opportunity employer committed to hiring a diverse workforce

Our HRCS has about 30% white, 30% Latino, 25% black and then other.
20% low income and the rest comprise of mix of middle income and UMC income
Academic achievement 60% combo of at or above grade level, rest below grade level

Most title 1 IB schools 80-90% Black, 80-90% low SES, and 80-90% below grade level.

So correct that many HRCS are racially, economically, and academically diverse while most IB title 1 schools are not.  It’s black and white clear 
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