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[quote=Anonymous]The big picture here is about young, yuppie liberals of all races deciding they are going to reverse the tragedy of white flight by moving east of the Park in DC.

We have a new and fragile trend over this decade, and particularly over the past few years, of all types of yuppies moving in and trying real, real hard to put their kid in public and charter schools in DC east of the Park rather than just opting for the suburbs (or Wards 2 or 3) when the kids hit 4 or 5 or ponying up for ridiculous private schools.

Reversing white flight requires critical masses of these families to put their kids in DC schools of some stripe or another east of the Park.  A school that effectively concentrates and separates a subgroup of the yuppie families dilutes that fragile critical mass.

And a sustainable reversal of white flight builds bridges between the successful liberal yuppies who are moving in and the dysfunctional poor families around them and east of them. DC charter schools need genuinely open programs that, while diverse in approach, truly interest the yuppie families in staying and interest poor longtime DC families in truly bettering the lives of their children.

Look, we're not going to live in some magic integrated world; it's been proven we only want that to a limited extent due to cultural and class affiliation, etc.  But we have to try harder than people have in past generations.

We're a bunch of young, committed yuppie liberals who decided to move into a city that turned into a despicable ghetto and think we can make it livable.  We should work in solidarity as much as we can to promote positive trends in this city.

If we were all in it for ourselves, we would just save up and make our own "white flight" west of the Park or out of the City.  I know this board is full of snark, crassness, spite and anger, but deep down we all want to serve both our consciences and our self-interest and prove that progress is possible.[/quote]

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