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If it is truly a citywide school, why is it almost exclusively white?  Shouldn't it be mostly black if it takes kids at random in the common lottery?  If only white people from Capitol Hill are picking it in the lottery anyway, then giving preference to the white people who happen to live close by really isn't going to harm its non-existent "diversity." [/quote]

Exclusively?  That's a huge stretch even if it's majority white.  FYI -- it's 2/3 white, and 1/5 AA and the remainer is mixed.  It's roughly the same as Brent's demographics.

You also assume that it's a preferred lottery option across demographics.  It's a specialized program not a good fit for every kid (of any color or degree of affluence) Obviously 20% of the school communit disagrees that it's "exclusively white" and if you knew the school community you'd understand the other 80% feels the same way.  The demographics reflect some degree of self-selection and nothingcreated by the school community itself.[/quote]

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