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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Principals should be ranked on how many white kids they recruit and retain in gentrifying neighborhoods.  It would demonstrate reaching out to IB high ses families and creating truly neighborhood schools full of IB families.im IB for bruce Monroe but have issues with my kid being te only white student or not being fluent in Spanish which is language of their 60% ESL population.  None of the white high ses families we know IB send their kids. [/quote]

I don't like this attitude.  Fair-handedness is important, certainly.  But no school should be seen as trying to "recruit and retain white kids."  You (and I) are citizens of DC, nothing special, and the children of Spanish-speakers or long-term residents are no less worthy of DCPS attention.  Good grief.

If you have learned anything on these boards, it is the rock-solid belief that race doesn't actually matter in the game we're trying to play, it's socioeconomic status.  Schools need a balance socioeconomically.  "Go recruit some white kids" is dinosaur stuff, man.[/quote]

+1.  has nothing to do with race , ethnicity.  However, there is an idea here worth exploring regarding recruiting all neighborhood families from all socio-economic backgrounds (including affluent black families -- why just white kids?).[/quote]

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