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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m not sure I understand why the city is making this such a big deal. Banneker is 98% AA and SWW is 60% AA. Why are they acting like white kids are taking over the magnet schools [/quote]

People need to read carefully and understand the “new” definition of diversity.  It’s no longer racial.  It is now about socio-economic diversity.  We need higher numbers of “at-risk” students represented in all the schools.  Read the article again and you’ll see how often race and socio-economic status gets conflated and confused.

This is because various lawsuits against forcing racial diversity have been won.  In order to comply with law and the constitution, diversity efforts can no longer be focused on race, but must be focused on socio-economic status instead.

I always really want to hear more from middle and upper class black families about policies like those being proposed in this article.  Why is the focus always on white families “taking over”?

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DCPS, the Council and the City Auditor all frame it in terms of race AND economic diversity (see below quote from the Post) and both are glaring problems at SWW. As for non-at-risk black families they are the dominant cohort at Banneker and Ellington.

"Since the 2014-2015 academic year, the 600-student campus [SWW] has enrolled an average of 16 additional white students each year and enrolled 16 fewer black students, according to city data. That has resulted in a[b] 37 percent increase of white students during that time, and a 35 percent decrease in black students." [/b]
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