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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]If you call yourself a liberal/progressive and don't go to your neighborhood school, or go private or charter instead. You are a hypocrite [/quote]

That's not what the article says at all.  It says white people in white neighborhoods are for neighborhood schools.  White people in diverse neighborhoods are for school choice.  You don't get to pat yourself on the back for picking a neighborhood school.
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Let's go to the text:

"“White communities want neighborhood schools if their neighborhood school is white,” she says. “If their neighborhood school is black, they want choice.” Charter schools and magnet schools spring up in place of neighborhood schools, where white students can be in the majority."[/quote]

You're looking at race, but the parents are looking at scores. I guarantee that if the all black school was a 10 on Great Schools, parents would be flocking to it. It's the 2s and 3s schools that parents want to escape and want choice. [/quote]

A more realistic way to look at this is to evaluate parent responses to schools in the 6-8 range. Schools in that range that are predominantly white are given the benefit of the doubt, whereas schools that are majority kids of color in that range are assumed to be "teaching to the test." Those schools cannot win because white parents will always find a reason for why the school "isn't a good fit."[/quote]

GreatSchools is just an internet company. You can't say a school "is" a 2 or 3 or 6 or 8. These are metrics given out by one company based on data from a flawed standardized test, averaged across a school of 700 students.

They've taken the whole of a school and neighborhood and community and reduced it to a number like some drunk dudes in a bar: "Yeah she's a 7. Too bad I only go for 9's or 10's."[/quote]

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