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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I might be horrible, but I'm a person of color who grew up poor, FARMs all the way. Without white and middle-class peers in school, I wouldn't have thought to go to college, or if I had gone, I probably wouldn't have graduated, no matter how strong the academics were. Without a diverse HS in my background, college and law school wouldn't have been on my horizon.

I earn 150K and live in a house in which I have at least 700K of equity. I want those boys to have what I have. Sadly, a racially and economically segregated environment in school probably won't put them on a path to prosperity, or integration into the larger society. Wish things were different. So please spare me your holier than thou bleeding heart diatribe. No, I don't like the set-up at the Ron Brown School for Boys.  [/quote]

So you're projecting failure for these young men because YOUR experience that wasn't even your experience? You assume that you wouldn't have succeeded but you don't even know because you didn't experience it? Ok got it. I grew up poor, went to a poor school in high school in LA, went to an HBCU, only got my BS, and make $180k. I only have $400k equity but I only bought in 2012. Maybe I would have done better had I gone to a school in the Palosades but I think I did just fine. If any of these boys graduate from college and stay out jail or a casket, they will be a success in my eyes despite what they earn or how much equity they obtain.[/quote]

OK, so you're against diverse urban schools?  No point in bothering to set them up?  [/quote]

Every charter school in the city, and many dcps schools, have the potential to be diverse urban schools, if middle and upper class students were willing to attend. But while we are waiting for gentrifiers to get over their fear of poor black kids, this is a good option.[/quote]

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