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This. Many times over. But I'm a racist gentrifier from 2002, so I'm sure there are many points I'll be accused of not understanding. [/quote] The objection to a school system that leads to significant racial segregation is not hard to understand. The question is whether you can address this without doing away with the neighborhood schools that attract higher SES families and that they will invest in. Retaining an OOB quota in all schools for which FARM families have a preference seems like an obvious and simple solution.[/quote]

No-- improving schools in poor neighborhoods so that ALL students have access to excellent schools regardless of their neighborhood in the obvious solution.

If creating diversity in the schools is your focus, use housing policy to increase economic diversity.  I'm a Brent parent and yes, I am uncomfortable with the Big Flip that has happened at the school.  But I am not so selfish as to think that Brent going from predominantly OOB to predominately IB is the biggest problem in DCPS.  "A solution in search of a problem."  that nails it.  Those of us in the Brent neighborhood have tried to increase low income housing units in the area.  that would be a much better "fix" for the "problem" of a comparative lack of diversity at Brent (compared to what is a good question though-- not compared to WOTP schools, but evidently that is OK because . . . those neighborhoods never made much of an attempt to be diverse, so why push them into that now?  Is that the story we are going with?)[/quote]

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