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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]
Please do, since I'm already seeing this study get trotted out on neighborhood facebook as great scholarship.
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I am considering writing a response. One irony I guess is that the report will probably generate more traffic to DCUM. Hopefully it won't be a bunch of racists coming to find out how to get into an all white school.
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The racists would quickly discover that there aren't any all-white public schools in the DC system, not even close.[/quote]

Um, doesn’t Janney come close, for one?  [/quote]

Yes, if by “all-white” you mean reflecting national averages.[/quote]

It's a bit more. "White students, on average, attend a school in which 69% of the students are white" - from "Harming Our Common Future: America's Segregated Schools 65 Years after Brown".
At Janney, it's 74%, and the next-biggest group is Multiracial, which I would guess is also different. [/quote]

Yes, and Janney (Key, Mann, Murch, Brent etc.) parents could move to the burbs, or a different part of the country, or go private in the District, to enroll their children in schools that are even more white.

This study is coming at the wrong jurisdiction and the wrong parents. [/quote]

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