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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People using their neighborhood schools instead of charters would help. There are plenty of integrated neighborhoods in DC, white people just don’t want to send their kids to the local school.[/quote]

Our charter (Spanish immersion) is far more integrated than our neighborhood school. If everyone in my neighborhood right now started attending our neighborhood school, it would be pretty diverse, however. So, I get your point. With that said, our charter is truly diverse in terms of SES and race and ethnicity and [b]that's what I want my kids [/b]to keep experiencing. [/quote]

This is what is preventing us from having more integrated schools.  Individual families making choices for the benefit of their own child.  Opportunity hoarding. I want what is "best" for my child.

Somewhere along the line we as a society decided to condition parents to "want what is best" for their child, at the expense of the community. As a society, we need to value our community above adding one more privilege for our child.  We need to consider what is best for all children, more than adding one more benefit to our individual child. For most people on this thread, and many in our community, picking what is best for the community will not hurt our child one bit.[/quote]

You don't get to have an opinion about what is best for other people's kids. Life is a game of Hungry, Hungry Hippo for resources. I find the argument that the people winning should slow down so others can get some marbles so everyone wins a little bit to have some merit but when you follow it up with the premises that the people who slow down wont miss the marbles they could have had to fly in the face of human nature. At some point poor kids will be reminded that they aren't competing on an even playing field by the cold bitch smack of reality, the sooner the better IMHO. I am not sure if slowing my kids down to give other a chance is a great idea especially when i really want my kids to finish way ahead of them. Considering that I am not enriching them to compete with poor kids anyway, I want them beating fellow high SES kids and i need every marble I can find for that so why is it should I slow down again?

I honestly think that this problem is the combination of college for all track and systemic racism.  Making all kids compete for an upper management niche that at most should cover 15-33% of kids is a farce especially when for generations, major sections of kids were exempted from even trying. Problem is if we make a trade or practical based education system again, college will become only for the rich again. Which is sort of is anyways not counting worthless degrees and easy credit.

Integrated schools will never capture rich kids, money buys options. All you can talk about is shuffling the middle class around until you get to what ever theoretical magic ratio you have convinced your self will make a poor hungry kid learn algebra better  :roll:     [/quote]

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