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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Don't kid yourself.  The academies are a panacea for white parents who worry about their kids being held back by poorer/black and latino kids.  A big reason why this AA family moved their kids to private.  Sure, my kids could have gotten into the academies (and probably done well there), but who wants to participate in a system like that?  [/quote]

These are my thoughts as well, [b]can you imagine how isolating it would be for the non-whites in the academies.[/b][/quote]

Probably not as isolating as it would be for whites at Banneker though, so if you want to hate you should spread it around.[/quote]

I think that you and the 18:20 poster misconstrued my concerns so let me explain.  My concern with the segregation at Wilson is not about diversity it about a culture of low expectations and what it could do to the development of my daughter (who is black).  Yes, a private will be likely be less diverse than Wilson but at a private the majority of the children that look like my daughter will not have the implicit label as under acheivers.   Yes, I am sure that she would do well academically at Wilson, but what about her social development.  She would be forced to navigate two worlds: one with her mostly white classmates in the academies and the other of mostly black kids who are left to flounder and who probably have misgivings about the student in the academies (and who can blame them).

Yes, Wilson issues are more socio-economic than race and I dont know how to fic it, but its not a world that I want to trust my daughter into.   I had a similar experices when I went to high school in a major urban area in the US (fresh off the plane from a third world country) and I do not want to put my child through a similar experience.

That is my choice and I make no appologies for it.

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This sounds quite reasonable.[/quote]

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