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[quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The bigger issue here is probably this:

DC is unusual in that it attracts a lot of high-achieving people from across the country -- the sort who got good grades in school, who went to prestigious colleges and who now want (expect) the same for their kids.

But the reality of DC is that most schools here, beyond elementary years, are just bad. Some are unbelievably bad. The city of DC has a very high tolerance for very low performing schools.

I think that's where a lot of the tension comes from.[b] It's not race. It's more of a class issue.[/b] [/quote]

IME, they are inextricably intertwined.  I’m not sure if anywhere else in the country has almost complete separation by race and class—white, affluent newcomers on the one hand and black, largely poor/working class DC natives on the other.  For example, I’ve talked to plenty of black middle/UMC Families like my own who’ve had assumptions made about them based on this state of affairs, by both teachers/staff and white families.  There wouldn’t be as much tension if it were class alone that mattered.[/quote]

I noticed when DCUM first started that UMC black families are frequently left out of the conversation. This report does that too by assuming that anyone wanting to get into one of the popular schools is white. I keep coming back to this point that the entire topic is complex and nuanced. It cannot be adequately addressed why a word frequency analysis.
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