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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We can pretend that we live in a world we don't live in, or we can face reality and live in the world in which we do.  Name a city in which black and white people live in harmony, side by side, ebony and ivory style.  Name a school that your kids go to where the lunchrooms arent divided on color lines.  There are exceptions, but they are few and far between.

That said, the families that would send their kids to a school that, by your argument, "concentrates a certain slice of white students" (which has yet to be proven but is probably true for 75% of students) arent going to be otherwise integrating with the rest of DC anyway.  They are going to either a) go private or b) leave the city.

The capitol of the free world should not be a place where residents of the city have to leave the city in order to educate their children.  Promoting families such as those in question staying in DC when their kids get to school age is absolutely in the best interests of DC as a whole.

When did you move to DC?  I have lived here since the 80s, and it was a real shithole then.   After the King riots, there was white flight that lasted for a long time.  People didnt live in Chinatown, people didnt live in Adams Morgan, many parts of the Hill, along much of 14th Street (dont want to name all of the Logan Circles, etc.).  DC was the murder capital of the country.  Our nations capital was the city with the most murders in the country.  People came downtown to work and then went home to the suburbs, or to small enclaves in small parts of the Hill, or Upper NW.

But educated middle and above class families--black and white--have moved back to DC in the past 20-some years.  This demand for housing is what has revitalized the aforementioned neighborhoods, and what brings much-needed tax dollars to the city.  Ultimately, more tax dollars coming into the city helps *all* of the residents of the city--rich, poor, and in between.

So yes, I feel that if Washington Hebrew School keeps some middle to upper middle class families in the city vs moving to the suburbs where they can get a good free education for their kids, it is a good thing for the city as a whole.[/quote]

This.

The Capital of the Free World should have a broad and exceptional selection of education options.  Spanish is good, French is good, Chinese is good, Latin is good.  Hebrew would be good.  Arabic would be good.  A multi-lingual HS combination of all the above would be good.

This isn't Chicago or Portland or Iowa City.  It should be showcase for the country and the world.[/quote]

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