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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]White parents are making decisions based more on the demographics of the school, its racial and SES make-up and not the actual quality of the education the school offers.

All other things being equal, white parents will always choose a predominantly white school over a truly integrated or majority minority school.  The social science research bears this out.

[b]White parents somehow equate low-income, high minority schools as "unsafe" or "low quality" when race and income has actually no relationship to the quality of the education a school has on offer. [/b]

The decisions white parents are making are based more on emotion and not on logic and rationality.  They will accept a large number of Asian students at a school, a certain number of Latino students, but have a low tolerance for black students.

These individual decisions, when carried out across the entire system, strengthen and reinforce the racial and socio-economic inequality that exist in society.   [/quote]
Would an upper/middle income, educated black parent choose to send their children to a high poverty (50%+) FARMS school if they had a choice to send them to a lower FARMS rate school with a bit less diversity?
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It would depend on other things. I did not make the decision of where to send my kids to school (and where to live) based solely on FARMS and diversity. Diversity was a large factor, but beyond having a general idea that the FARMS rate was not in the 70s, we didn't really think about it. We spoke to people in the neighborhoods, toured schools, looked at curriculum and class offerings. We ended up with schools that were in the 45% FARMS range. We have been happy for the most part. But the few years that we were considering other options (middle school), we looked at private rather than moving. [/quote]

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