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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can someone summarize why it's "racist" to avoid sending your white (or Asian?) child to a crummy school, that happens to be majority minority? And dovetailing, how does a lack of white (and Asian?) students make a minority majority school disadvantaged?

I honestly don't get this argument.[/quote]

From what I see, Asians aren't blamed. Only whites.[/quote]
I haven’t listened to the podcast so I’m not addressing that situation. What is racist, is assuming that a majority minority school is “crummy” without other evidence. Test scores are inherently a measure of the student socioeconomic demographic, in no way a measure of the quality of a school, and yet are used without question, by many white families in choosing where to live. That’s what’s racist. It doesn’t mean that every majority minority school is a good fit for your child or that it’s racist to do actually do the research and make the decision that’s best for your family. [/quote]

Is there any evidence that test scores are 'racist' other than results correlating to economic status? Do kids who can read fail reading SOLs because of race?[/quote]

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