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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why do we *need* white students?  Can't we just focus on the kids here and support them?[/quote]

+1.

We don’t need them.  HBCU grads (especially Spelman (Stacey Abrams), Morehouse (MLK Jr./Spike Lee), and Howard (VP Harris)) are a testament to that fact.[/quote]

DCPS doesn’t need white students.  It does need more students that are not low-income.  Being in schools with a majority of grade-level peers is what helps lagging students improve, so says the research.[/quote]

Completely disagree. Whites are the dominant group in our society and democracy and will continue to be for generations.

From where I sit, children of color, regardless of a class, who don't have a chance to mix with cohorts of white kids, to tap into their family's social and professional networks, in school and college miss out.

I will not encourage my children to attend HBCU's.  I say this a a person of college who had few white classmates growing up, and no white friends until college. I feel like I would have been better off if I'd been able to attend racially and economically diverse schools, and not just because they might have been better than the schools I had access to academically.[/quote]

Must be biracial.

Anyway can we stop with this black white paradigm? There are other ethnic groups. As someone who actually grew up in a diverse area that has helped me but not specifically just white people.
And if my child wanted to go to and HBCU, I would be proud even though I did not go to one. [/quote]

Not biracial.  Pragmantic.[/quote]

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