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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not that this debate is getting us anywhere, but the AA population of DC has been decreasing by about one percent each year,  according to census numbers and other experts, the AA population of DC dropped below 50 percent in 2011 and, based on other data, whites comprised about 43 percent of the population as of 2013.  A plurality of whites, Asians and Hispanics now outnumber AA, just as it was only 50 years ago.  The ers of "Chocolate City" is gone and DC looking more and more like a frappiccino.  One need look no further than the DC Council.  And more change is coming.  As just one example, development is quickly transforming New York Avenue between North Capitol and South Dakota Avenues, and will only be hastened by Union Market.  Mom's Organic Market isn't really aimed at the Ivy City demographic.  And just wait for the uproar when the Maine Avenue seafood vendors are displaced and moved under the freeway.  Meanwhile, until there is a comprehensive plan for Ward 6 addressing middle schools and beyond, Eastern will remain irrelevant to most of Capitol Hill.[/quote]

+1.  Exactly, irrelevant.  I don't hear gentrifiers with children talking about using Eastern.  [/quote]

I've lived in 3 innercities with gentrification--2 for 5 years each, 1 for 2 years and I spent a year in another one working on a grad degree.

The public schools in all of those areas remained predominately minority. In one city there was a college prep high school that kids tested into that all the gentrifiers talked about and couldn't wait for. The school came with some real bragging privileges.

So, the point about gentrifiers with children not using Eastern (or any DCPS) is not the huge deal you think it is. That world and schools will continue to turn without the children of gentrifiers. Really. It will. [/quote]

The world will continue to turn and yet your schools will continue to produce students who aren't prepared to function as productive members of society.[/quote]

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