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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The building is old and poorly designed. We kept having to make u-turns during Open House. I would not send our DC there based on student population from nearby very high density housing. The local McDonald’s closes its doors for 90 minutes after school dismissal time because of the rowdiness of the students.[/quote]

The barely veiled racism here is just so frustrating. I am so sick of people on this board immediately attacking this area [b]just because there is a higher latino/immigrant population[/b]. [/quote]

Both things can be true. There ARE higher incidences of crime in those areas. Does that feed into some people's biased perceptions of the ethnic groups living in those neighborhoods? Probably. Does that mean that the only reason they "attack the area" is because of the racial makeup of those neighborhoods? No, because there is statistically more crime in those areas.

Both things can be true and there is nuance to these conversations. And we do a disservice to the truth and productive conversation when simplistically make blanket statements. The truth is when it comes to issue of race, class, crime and poverty, it's a layered and intersectional problem with multiple dimensions to it. And boiling it down to just "You're racist!" is unhelpful.[/quote]

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