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[quote=Anonymous]The fact is that, in Fairfax County, whites and Asians (except for some of the Vietnamese communities) tend to be at least upper middle-class, while the blacks and Hispanic populations account for a disproportionate share of the middle and lower-class residents.

When some people at Langley talk about SES diversity, they tend to highlight the growing Asian population there, which is affluent.   They won't acknowledge that there's virtually no poverty there (unlike at any other neighborhood high school in the county), and they'll bend over backwards to use phrases like "middle class (for this area)," which is just a way to say that they personally are less wealthy than some other people at, well, Langley.  But they don't really want to come to terms with the fact that the boundaries of their school have been expanded and then carefully protected to exclude those who, by any standards other than some rarefied NoVa standard, are lower SES.

A few Langley posters get it and candidly acknowledge that the school's boundaries should be expanded to add more diversity.  But, just as often, they ignore what's in plain sight, or argue for something else that would maintain Langley's privilege (see the recent thread where the Langley parent argued that Langley should become a "language academy," where Langley could offer more foreign languages than any other high school in the county, rather than have its boundaries expanded to include some students from less affluent areas).

Persons of color may want to reflect on this before deciding to live in the Langley district.  It's like dealing with people who claim "they don't see color": is it because they are without prejudice or because they are clueless?  [/quote]

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