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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just so we are all clear:

Wilson HS- 39% white (Racist)

Washington Latin- 35% white (Not Racist)
https://latinpcs.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/2018-10-29-Washington-Latin-PCS-%E2%80%93-Upper-School-HS-PMF.pdf

BASIS DC- 45% white (Not Racist)
https://www.myschooldc.org/schools/profile/138

Makes total sense to me.[/quote]

You can’t be that dumb. What is the difference between Wilson and the other two schools? Could it be that they’re charters and charters are lottery? Wilson is by property rights. Lottery for all HS would make Wilson in the same category as charters. (Not endorsing just pointing it out.)[/quote]

I don’t get a meaningful distinction.  Different methods of entry, so people get there by different routes.  One relies on some luck, and one [b]requires restricting your housing search by geography (and probably settling for much smaller housing).[/b]

I don’t see some big moral difference.[/quote]

Wow. Do you think the majority of people who live in the poorest IB school catchment areas can afford to live in JKLM-land? In any kind of or size of housing? Do you think they have that kind of mobility? Or the community support to provide child-care (because they aren't hiring au pairs)? The mere fact that you see this merely as an issue of "restricting your housing search by geography " necessarily disqualifies you from meaningful participation in this discussion. This is not about your friends from grad school who chose to buy a $900,000 house in Petworth instead of a tiny place in Friendship Heights and are now complaining about their school options.    [/quote]

You can live in JKLM/Eaton/OA for $800/mo.  Not many families would like the options at that price.  [/quote]

PP again — but the question here isn’t whether everybody can afford all areas of town.

The question is whether it’s racist to go to Wilson vs. Latin.

If the idea is someone is racist because their income is higher than someone else’s, well, I don’t know what to tell you.[/quote]

Here is one observation: while wilson has diverse demographics, many neighborhoods that feed to Wilson are not diverse.

I'm not sure what the breakdown is of where Latin kids are coming from, but is it possible that they live in more integrated neighborhoods? And thus the white kids there are not living in an overwhelming white neighborhood and it all feels less racist.[/quote]

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