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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And yes I know there are (lots of) kids in the CQ townhouses, and I know some of those house owners console themselves with the thought that their neighborhood is diverse because of those few corner rental units (which fool no one, BTW).

Please.  An $800K townhouse is middleclass in exactly no one's world...

If you were really amenable to "diverse", you would be welcoming the kids from James Creek and Syphax, trying to boost them, and using them to broaden your snowflake's experiences -- not trying to keep them out.

You moved to SE for a reason.

What was it again?

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"[b]Yet, I will not allow my children to go to a school with a high FARM rate[/b].  The reality is that most children in DC who come from households living in public housing come from families that do not put a high value on education.   I would not want to have my children be surrounded by that in school.  My children benefit from being surrounded by children who come from families emphasize the importance of education, regardless of race.  This way my children will see for themselves that Black does not equal poor and White does not equal rich.[/quote]

No, but you apparently want your children to learn that rich = good and that poor = bad, which is an equally faulty assumption.

I never said anything about [u]racial[/u] diversity in my post above.

Ambitious parents who want their children to do better than they did are certainly not restricted to the upper part of the economic spectrum, nor do they all live west of the park or east of South Cap (or even west of the river).

Cities by definition have economic diversity because everyone lives so close to each other.  But some neighborhoods have more than others.  Near SE still has some of it, even if not so much on a block-by-block basis any more.

And it's part of what makes this neighborhood different from parts of the suburbs (or even other parts of the city), and it's a major reason why many of us moved here in the first place.

Why did YOU move here?

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