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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Even though it may be diversity in terms of ethnic background/birthplace, I'm not sure schools full of diplomats' and WB executives' kids is really more meaningfully "diverse" than many DC DCPS/HRCS especially at the ES level. That is, I think socioeconomic diversity sometimes matters a whole lot more...[/quote]

Completely agree. World Bank culture is surprisingly homogenous. Many different languages, skin colors, birth places, but all middle/upper middle class childhoods with 2+ degrees from good universities. And many studied at the same universities in the US, UK and EU. SES diversity is much more noticeable than ethnic diversity after you've known someone for more than a day. 
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You need to have a degree in higher education to work at the world bank, IADB, IMF, etc.

And as someone who actually works at one of these places, I can tell you it's quite diverse. [/quote]

It's 100% fair to say it's a different kind of diversity though. I'm a U.S. career FSO and would never deny that foreign diplomats posted to DC long term (as most countries do, especially poorer ones) are actually more "like me" than many of my NE neighbors. Theirs kids are even more like my kids, Since many of them have been 100% raised here.[/quote]
I work for the WB, and this is 100% correct, and this is the only kind of diversity I want for my children.  I don't really want them to have Section 8 friends. [/quote]

Why not? Do you really worry about your children meeting poor children? Wow. Are you a recent immigrant to this country?[/quote]
I don't worry about it, I just prefer that they are friends with children like them from families who value the same things that we can relate to. There is limited time and mental space for friendships, so I would rather they were friends with children of, say, other World Bankers (no matter what country they are from).  They have nothing in common with Section 8 people so let's not engineer proximity where none exists. [/quote]

Lol. Well, now I know why the world Bank is such a cluster of incompetence. You're what, second generation from some caste-driven country?[/quote]
You say this like it means anything.

All countries are caste-driven, some are just more explicit about it.[/quote]

The more reasonable countries realize that fortunes rise and fall, and that a child's worth is not defined by their parents pedantic degree. And then there's you, cowering in some kind of "class" system that is important to you. So, so important. I find it pitiable.[/quote]

What's pitiable is people like you posting lamentations of "locked out of my first choice charter! desirable school waitlist not moving! unfair!" with one hand, and moronic denials of class societies with the other.  The entire DC lottery system is based on accommodating people's desire to educate their children away from the ill effects of multigenerational poverty.  Own it, instead of pitying people who have the nerve to articulate it.[/quote]

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