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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Mike Petrilli on twitter today.  Someone tweeted his oped as an" effort to help DC manage the Big Flip"  and Mike tweeted back

Michael Petrilli ?@MichaelPetrilli 1h
.@alexanderrusso @samchaltain @RickKahlenberg Well, we hope they can AVOID the Big Flip!

All I can say is that his plan to avoid the Big Flip will definitely work by driving away the middle and upper class from DC awfully quick.  Problem solved![/quote]

I'm with Scott Pearson on this ("A solution in search of a problem.")

Tell me again why a Big Flip is something we need to avoid?[/quote]

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]

You've got your causality in the reverse direction. The school system is not LEADING to segregation. Segregation/Gentrification is leading to the school system changes.

Moreover, even a cursory understanding of the racial composition of the schools in question would lead one to conclude that segregation isn't the concern here: it is about preventing historically majority (exclusively?) black schools from becoming significantly white. That sounds more racist to me than the "Big Flip." [/quote]

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