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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No here is what cracks me up.  If everyone actually went to their neighborhood school DCPS would still be massively segregated because guess what DC is overwhelmingly segregated

There are no real integrated areas just areas that are in various stages of gentrifying

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I still think at risk preferences would help.[b] Rich people in gentrifying neighborhoods would be less likely to lottery out of their inbound school, [/b]and at-risk people in not-gentrified neighborhoods would have more chance to lottery into a better school. This could help with all the constant churn in EOTP schools.[b] Rich people stay because their choices are limited, [/b]at-risk people stay because they had access to better choices. The shortfall is you could eventually get completely gentrified schools a la WOTP, but if you implement at risk set asides now (in addition to lottery preferences), maybe you could keep the school diversity.[/quote]

The thing is, rich people's choices are NOT limited. They can move, or they can go private. Diverse charter schools (diverse does not mean reflective of the city's demographic mix. It means more diverse than the city and more diverse than WOTP and EOTR) have been the best way so far to keep the rich kids and the poor kids together in the same public (charter) school.[/quote]

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