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It's also interesting how on this thread people are genuinely expressing there desire for more white kids at this school, when I think what people really want is more kids at the school that come from higher SES.  If not, then would the people on this thread, who claim to want more white families at the school, welcome a more white kids from families like "Honey Boo Boo"?  I think not.  Alternatively, what if the school was majority black, but the black kids came from families like the Obamas (Ivy league educated lawyers)?  Would this not be Ok?

In my opinion, if you want higher SES families at your school, then just say that.  Don't say "Black", "White", "Latino", "Asian", etc.

BTW, I'm an African-American currently doing my master's at Johns Hopkins Univ and my wife is an African-American with a master's from George Washington University, we have two kids, and hopefully we won't be looked down upon if we decide to enroll our kids at Ludlow-Taylor Elementary School.

Another high SES AA here. I also wondered about my child being judged negatively in Cap Hill schools after reading comments on this forum.

I'd say there are a couple things at play here:

First, because there are effectively no low-SES non-Hispanic white people living in DC proper, white families are presumed to be high-SES; meanwhile, there are AA families at every SES level in the District, but I think many white people assume that AA kids at LT are from wards 7 & 8  and likely low-SES. Basically, unless AA parents show up and discuss their jobs with white parents, they're often assumed to be low-SES. (That sounds awful. It -is- awful. But I think it's true.)

[b]Second, I think for many white families, it's not about SES -- it really is about color. They want a critical mass of white children so their kids won't stick out as the only white ones.[/b]

I frequently see people comparing LT to Maury and offering Maury as something LT should strive to be. But LT already has way more kids performing at the advanced level than Maury does -- the biggest difference is in the demographics: Maury is 48% white and 40% black, with 55% of students IB; LT is 16% white and 77% black, with 21% IB.
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I decided to put the above comment in bold in order to emphasize why you see so much division in the world.   You still have a critical mass of people who like to divide humans in us/them groups.  This is a problem, because there is no monolithic group of people on this planet who think alike just because you decide to put them in a group.  Think about this for a second when you look at what is currently happening in Iraq.  Sunnis fighting Shia.  Most Americans (probably people on this thread too) could see a Sunni and Shia, and just think of them as being the same.   The reason I gave this example is because this whole idea of "whites" being a monolithic group is also wrong.  This is such a simplistic way of thinking when you look at history and you saw Germans fighting Russians, Russians fighting the Polish, and Germans fighting Americans.  Today, we would see them as all "white" and thus the "same".[/quote]

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