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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The PP said schools families WANT their kids to attend- there are plenty of families who send their kids to certain schools that they absolutely dislike and are stuck and feel that they have no choice.  I think the statement that there is a small handful of middle schools and high schools that all the families in the city would want their kids to attend is absolutely correct.  [/quote]

I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that you don't talk to many families outside of your bubble.  Remember, DCUM is pretty extreme bubble.[/quote]

+1. This spring, I had a lot of conversations with 8th graders at a school that almost certainly none of the people on DCUM would send their kids to, and the things that they were worried about for middle and high school were things that wouldn't even occur to most of the people on this board. For example, they did not care AT ALL if there were no white kids at the school.[/quote]

That wouldn't surprise me one bit but I'm curious about your framing in those discussions.  I'd be very interested to know how students at struggling schools view systemic inequity like lack of top performing teachers, or insufficient funding to address high at-risk populations, etc.

These students would be 100% correct be skeptical of white students' presence as any sort of benefit or  panacea, but I suspect they'd be far more interested in school resources being equitably expended for everyone regardless of address.[/quote]

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