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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]...and also location.  It is not at all convenient to Ward 3.[/quote]

Ward 5 is becoming much more diverse, but my family was on the cutting edge of this trend and our kid is now a 10th grader.  We were actually the only white family in our census block for a few years!  That is no longer the case.  I expect more white in the coming decade as more kids who live nearby and are white enter high school.

The other thing is that, even as someone who went to a high school that was very diverse (more black than white students) I was nervous about sending my kid to a school where he would be part of the 4.7% of white students.  (The 3% number is wrong and the 4.7% number has held for two years, so white kids haven't been the "onlies" at the school for quite some time if ever.)

But, that said, I went to school in the South in the 90s.  Racial tensions were much higher then because segregation was not a distant memory but something fellow students' parents had lived through.  I think enough time has passed that it's a bit different now than then.  It's pretty easy for us parents to project our experiences onto our kids, but they're really living in a very different time than the one we grew up in.[/quote]

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