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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Parent of white kids in the Deal/Wilson feeder pattern here: I don't have a problem with this language. It's a little clumsy, obviously, but I'm fine with the goal of diverse schools.[/quote]

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If you want to promote equity, you discuss the positives - seats for OOB, at risk preferences, benefits for those populations, etc. 
You don’t talk about an entire ethnicity as if it’s a “problem” to be solved. This isn’t clumsy; it’s hostile.[/quote]

Disagreeing with the statement “we need to preserve diversity” would mean you think segregation is okay. Or preferred. Which is probably not something most of us would say is true about our beliefs. Which makes me think it’s the second part of the sentence that was triggering for some people like OP. But if you can see from the data that your child’s school is becoming less racially diverse over time, in other words you acknowledge “the projected whitening of the feeder pattern”, and you don’t believe that segregation is okay or preferable, then you probably want to “mitigate” this. I think people have different comfort levels and preferences towards certain terms when talking about race, but hope we can all agree we want our children to grow up in an integrated and equitable society. [/quote]

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