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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No, it’s really not okay to speak, in an official school system document, about too many white people being a problem. We need to start speaking about diversity in terms of culture and socio-economics. It is a worthy goal to have schools that represent a diversity of culture, sociology-economics and races. Students learn to understand each other if the topics are addressed effectively. But language and respect matter. If you alienate people, they become less willing to engage. We should not make anyone feel unwelcome or as though there is an undesirable number of a particular group.[/quote]

No one thinks it is a problem that there are white students in DCPS! It’s a problem that they all try to cram in the same 15 schools, leading to systemwide segregation and overcrowding in those schools.[/quote]

So you’re against IB schools?[/quote]

I personally am for high school, I think it’s silly in a city, especially one this size. And at the lower grades, you’d think DCPS was trying to steal children when they tried to address overcrowding in the Wilson feeder schools in the last boundary review. I think the objections were a bit overwrought if the concern was “walkability.”[/quote]

I think it speaks to a justified lack of trust that DCPS will ensure an appropriate college preparatory curriculum at the non-Wilson schools. I’m not sure why it’s so hard and why people are so stubborn about recognizing this: parents of any color are not going to enroll their kids in a failing school based on a dictate from above and nothing else. You need to persuade people that the school will work. [/quote]

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