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[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]

They "try to cram" into their IB schools.  As in, go to the school that they can walk to, that their friends attend.

It seems like you really want to prevent white people with kids from buying houses in certain neighborhoods.  [/quote]

Maybe, just maybe, most of the white families wouldn't cram into the same 15 schools if three things were true: 1) there were more supports for at-risk students across the board, particularly much improved instructor to student ratios, 2) social promotion was no longer automatic in DC public elementary or middle schools, and 3) DC were to pass a law on Gifted education mandating funded support for advanced learners, like MD and VA did 25 years ago.

When I was a kid in public school, consistently disruptive kids were routinely removed from general classrooms, and kids who didn't meet standards for grade-level work were commonly held back, forced to attend summer school and/or repeat grades.  Not in DCPS or DCPC.  All it takes are 3 or 4 kids in your kids class who are seriously disruptive, and working 2 or 3 years behind grade level, to derail the learning experience for the others.  In DC, such kids are generally poor and AA. Where I grew up, they were poor and white. [/quote]

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