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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. [b]Test scores are inherently a measure of the student socioeconomic demographic, in no way a measure of the quality of a school[/b], 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]

Oy vey, test scores are about the most reliable way to assess a building's caliber. Let me guess, crime statistics, homicide rate, and 9-1-1 response time are no way to measure public safety, either?

Of course the most reliable way to measure a high school's quality would be to accurately track both what college 12th graders land at, then after 4 years note if they graduated (on time) and the degree earned. But that would probably be too revealing for you and you'd claim all the kids from a low achieving high school ran out of money and had to drop out of college after working 3 jobs to make ends meet.  :roll: [/quote]

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