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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I didn't know that there were different categories of AAs when considering who will attend the school.

So if middle-upper class blacks attend Hebrew then it really isn't like black kids are attending it because they are more like white kids.  You have to have "less educated" black parents choosing the school to really mean that blacks are choosing the school.

Got it. [/quote]
Sorry it was supposed to read like this, I missed a break:

And guess what, there are more or less educated Whites and more or less educated Hispanics, too. Are we going to pretend that class divisions don't exist? Because that's all the PP is observing. Middle and upper-middle class AA families DO want the same things middle and upper-middle class white families want. Why? Has nothing to do with race, it has to do with the fact that we're talking about class. [b]Let's not conflate the two and then play dumb[/b].[/quote]

I don't think that anyone is playing dumb.  Charters are started for different reasons.  Did I hear outcry when MV was starting because they weren't serving poor black kids instead of middle-class black kids?  Of course class divisions exist.  That is why there are specifc charters which focus on low income black children.  It doesn't mean that all charters have to focus on them though. [/quote]

I wasn't suggesting that they should.  I was responding to the PP "it really isn't like black kids are attending it because they are more like white kids."  I don't think she should play games, if she wants to make it about class then she should come right out and say so.  And, after that, perhaps justify whatever is awful about allowing middle class parents to have decent choices which they prefer for their children.  [/quote]

Not any of the PPs, but I think you completely misunderstood that PP.  She never said that middle class black kids are not black or anything like that.  She only said that  middle class black parents want the same choices and the same good schools, just like any middle class white parents -or middle class any other origin parents- want, as in; any educated parent that cares will be drawn to the same good schools, regardless.  And I think that is clear and true.[/quote]

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