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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are ZERO schools that are more than 80% white.

The idea that sending your kid to a school of 70% white kids is somehow racist makes me chortle. Meanwhile, good luck finding a school with a decent cohort of Asian students. But of course, Asians don’t count. [/quote]

I’m the OP. My (public) high school was about 90% white. About 10% Asian, less than 1% black, less than 1% Latino. This was in a wealthy suburb of a major US city (not DC).

I do it want that for my children. [/quote]

DO NOT! Sorry, bad typo. [/quote]

Can you state what racial percentages you would be comfortable with? 80% white and 20 % other?  70 % white and 30% other? 20% white and 80% other?[/quote]

OP here. I want my children to go to a racially diverse school, and I live in DC. So - more than about 80% white would be a deal breaker for me, it should be less than that. I don’t think that even exists in DC public or public charter schools anyway, so I’m not too concerned. <2% white seems a bit tough, like my kids might not belong.

So I guess I’m looking for a school that’s between 3% and 80% white. That’s… a pretty big range. [/quote]

We're Asian and won't go for any school that isn't at least around 5% Asian and, say, 40% white, ruling out all but a handful of DC public schools.  As kids, we were about the only Asians in urban public middle schools where we were frequently taunted for our race.  We were routinely called chink, with classmates pulling on their corners of their eyes to make fun of us. We don't care much about diversity.  Given the option, we would go for a public school that was more than 80% white, as long as the student body was also at least 5% Asian. We keep these thoughts to ourselves. [/quote]

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