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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My perspective--

I see it as my job to prepare my children for tomorrow's world. Tomorrow's world is increasingly brown. We are white and have a comfortable HHI, Ivy League education, and I didn't want my kids raised like I was-- knowing hardly any black people or Hispanic people.

So we chose a close in diverse neighborhood in NE DC. We send our kids to a very diverse charter school. By choice and by happenstance, because where we love makes this easy-- 
- our kids' pediatricians are AA women running their own practice
- our kids' dentist is an AA woman 
- our kids' principle is an AA woman
- our kids' music teacher is an AA man
- and of course our kids' President is an AA man

We have neighbors who are gay married men.

Diversity and tolerance are core values in our lives. We chose a place that helps us live that, and that helps prepare our children for the diverse, vibrant world they will be living in.[/quote]

my question

How old are your kids?  You chose a charter, which tends to draw in a specific group of people. Would you send your kids to your local NE HS?

Living in a diverse 'hood and taking your children to educated experts isn't the same as having them attend the local school.

Diversity means different things to different people.

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Not PP, but I don't think valuing diversity means sending your kids to failing schools.  I'm AA and no way would I send my child to many schools in DC.  You have to balance valuing diversity with other things, like the importance of a solid education.  Each family has to decide where to draw the line re: that balance.  For my family, it's buying in a neighborhood that is diverse, but also zoned for Deal/Wilson.  For PP, it's a diverse neighborhood and charter school, and patronizing services staffed/owned by PoC when possible.  This sounds like a good and totally reasonable balance to me.[/quote]

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