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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]15:51 again. This is all especially hard in a city like DC, where something like 70-75% of the students in the city fit the definition of "H/PBH." If they are spread out evenly among all schools, then all schools will be majority H/PBH. That seems likely to create a downward spiral for all those schools, without much benefit other than letting some people claim they "promoted equity.[/quote]

More than 70% of my grandmother's poor farming community in one of American's breadbaskets were... poor. And, although I'm sure now someone will chime with a lecture about nuclear families and how those were happier, simpler times, they had just as many obstacles to overcome. Just as much abuse, poverty, malnutrition, domestic violence, etc.

And yet, because there was an optimism, a belief that we were making a better future, most of them went to land grand universities, got jobs, and made a better life for their klids.

Please, stop blaming the people caught in this mess instead of blaming the system that bilks them at every term. Trust me, every parent wants a good education for their kids. Every parent wants the same things you do. And you are just as likely to have your kids catch cooties from the family that jetted in from Zurich as the ones from Deanwood. [/quote]

I'm sure you'd love to chalk all opposition up to simple racism, but that doesn't wash.  DC's a highly integrated place, and there's probably no middle or high school in the entire city that's not already majority black+Hispanic.  No one's afraid the black people.  But what people don't want is to sacrifice any opportunity at a quality school situation in service of some politician's campaign slogan of "equity for all."  Equity for all is great, unless it means all the schools will be uniformly crappy.

If you've got a silver bullet solution - "optimism, a belief that we were making a better future!" - then by all means present a plan.  But if that plan is going to harm other kids, then you'd better make sure it's a good one.  
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