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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the issue that everyone is dancing around is class. It’s considered fine to be “diverse” so long as they aren’t poor. And we all know that DCUM is afraid of the poor students  - who in DC are predominantly Black and Hispanic -  coming from homes with anything less than white-collar jobs with highly educated parents. It’s terrifying.  Washingtonians aren’t necessarily racists as much as elitist and classist. And in DC class is divided by class. We don’t have a large population of working poor whites. If we did, those students wouldn’t be wanted at the high performing schools either.[/quote]

[b]And once again, DCPS was explicit in the powerpoit that this is about class, not really race:
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"The general profile of the OOB student is they are from Ward 1 and Ward 4 and students of color. But they are not families who qualify as at-risk. Implementing an at-risk preference for OOB seats can help with this."

So student of color who are not at risk don't really count in DCPS calculations.  [/quote]

Then why have a headline about "whitening"? It's completely unnecessary and also not true, given the increase in other POC's - Middle Eastern, Asian, Latin/Hispanic - in the catchment.

Instead, the should've kept the focus on "decreasing SES diversity in the feeder pattern". No need to shame white families for existing. [/quote]

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