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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"It is absolutely also racism."

[b]No it's not.[/b] That suggests that the main reason people are avoiding these schools is that the kids are black and Hispanic. Plenty of my black neighbors are also avoiding local middle and high schools. Does that mean they are racist too against their own race?

The reality is that SES dynamics are very strong and that includes behavior and cultural issues as well as the community feel to a school. Again, these issues can be reduced if you have a critical mass of MC kids at the school (regardless of race) but it had already been clearly established that the county won't be busing kids from other areas. So all that remains us to focus on the families in he red zone that are avoiding it currently to figure out how to change that. [/quote]

I think it's really hard to separate race and class issues. My local elementary school is 99% Black and Hispanic though my immediate neighborhood is mainly white. I am white. My daughter is mixed race (White and Black (Latino)). Our school has a Great Schools rating of 2. I could care less what color/nationality the kids at her school are. I care about that rating of 2--and yes, I know that GS ratings are not the be all end all, but a 2 is pretty bad. Nobody in my neighborhood sends their child to that school, except for a couple of kids from families who are living many families to a single house. I really want my child to be able to attend that school, and really don't care as much about the high school (I went to a pretty rough high school and did fine) but sending a little kid to a crap school seems worse somehow. [/quote]

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