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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Parents who don't care about hundreds, possibly thousands, of high SES DCPS families bolting from the system for good after this miserable school year of 100% DL for most are the kind who cut off their noses to spite their faces.  They will need luck.[/quote]

Gross over-estimation of your value but you do you.[/quote]

+1[/quote]

No individual family is that important, but the problem is that it can turn into a snowball effect. UMC people see other UMC people leaving, and decide they need to bail, too, because they want to see a critical mass of high-performing kids in order to entrust their own to the system.[/quote]

There is nothing wrong with middle and low income minorities. Because that is really what you are describing, isn’t it? “Educational white flight.” [/quote]

No, PP is describing educational UMC flight, white, black, Asian, Latino.  Grow up.[/quote]

No sorry UNW parents who make this argument mean specifically white kids. Be honest because you aren’t.[/quote]

Wrong. How many times on this board do people talk about the UMC Black families living in Shepherd Park who send their kids private?  I know this doesn’t fit your narrative but there it is. [/quote]

Ha, we're one of these families, but we're a pretty minscule segment of the UMC population in DC.  I agree w/the other PP that usually UMC is indeed code for white, affluent families.[/quote]

DP. So you are acknowledging that UMC people in DC tend to be white, especially within DCPS, since most UMC Blacks (including you) are sending their kids to private. Yet you still use the word "code", implying that Upper NW families are secretly driven by racism and are trying to hide it by talking about SES instead of race, when it's simply the reality that SES and race tend to intersect in this city. [/quote]

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