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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]i am not the op.  the op presumably believes true diversity is desirable but also that 95% same race schools are a product of systemic forces and individual choices away from that school.  there's some residual guilt when that is your neighborhood school and you nonetheless choose to drive across town for another option.  it's not the pro-community choice.  [/quote]

but what if the school doesn't represent the community? for example if the neighborhood is 30/30/30 split, but the school is overwhelmingly one race. [/quote]

Right but it's challenging because how will the school ever represent the community if people don't send their kids there IB?

We are in this situation with our IB school and I think this is our last year there, regrettably. But as our kid has aged it has felt less like a neighborhood school because so few of our neighbors send their kids there. For ECE yes, but not beyond. Most of my child's friends there live outside the school boundary now, which eliminates one of the main appeals of going to your IB school. Most of our immediate neighbors send their kids to charters or to DCPS in nearby boundaries.

We tried.[/quote]

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