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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Cute that you think you can force enconomically well-off families into violent and seriously below average DC schools.  They move, go private, or manipulate the system that you set up to go to a good school.  This debate already happened forty years ago, and recently under Abigail as DME.  We know the outcome.  And the people in the underperforming schools don't want to be schlepped across town either. [/quote]

Nobody is forcing you to go anywhere! If you feel so embattled and threatened by school integration, then why are you in DCPS at all? What are you going to do for MS and HS? And nobody is talking about a bussing operation - we are talking about the ulitmately untenable arrangement where you have low performing, unintegrated schools literally blocks away from majority white higher performing schools. The sooner the Hill comes together to fix this, the better for everyone. [/q?

Interesting idea. When I lived in Dupont years ago,chock full of whites,  I did not put my interacial child in the almost completely minority assigned school for a couple of reasons. Not to be a one of, school was engaged in a lot of remediation, and it was a school that had zero pictures of non AA statesmen inventors etc hanging in the hall. It was entirely decorated with AA figures, African cloth patterns and the like. The secretary also asked me off the bat if I spoke Spanish, which I found bizarre but also say a lot about the demographic shifts in the city at the time in terms of visually white people looking into lower performing public schools. Whites have flowed into some schools in DC that are either predominantly white now or well integrated. Yes, they are desirable. In all of these, the white students are doing well, the high see minority students well, and the low ses still struggle along but maybe less so. White families have made integration inroads in a school system that I think they should be given some credit for. It would be interesting to see how that correlates to the re entry into dcps/charter of middle or high income minorities who could add another layer of much needed diversity. I  actually like your ideas, if there are enough high performing kids in capitol hill to go around without having to be tip of the spear, which is ok to ask but totally unfair to demand. At the same time,  l just as the predominantly white schools should be welcoming to diversity in word and deed I would hope the schools wanting/receiving a flow of white kids that hadn't had them would be as well. [/quote]

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