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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Agree. I can't take seriously folks who say that the current racial makeup of Banneker has NOTHING WHATSOEVER to do with the reluctance of white families to send their kids there. COME ON NOW.[/quote]

Agreed.  I think the fact that Banneker is predominantly AA explains at least a small part of the avoidance for some white families--whether they're aware of this or not--as this research also suggests:

[b]"The study also demonstrated white parents’ taste for what the journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones has termed “carefully curated integration,” the kind that exposes white children to some poor peers of color but not “too many.”[/b] At the elementary-school level, white Washington parents prioritized schools where about 60 percent of the student body was white and were slightly more likely to avoid schools with larger percentages of white children. At the middle school level, the researchers found that the “bliss point” for white parents was a student body that was 26 percent white. In a district where 73 percent of students are black, 14 percent are Hispanic, and only 9 percent are white, such preferences contribute to a significant clustering of white children, which results in black and Hispanic students being further segregated. (The researchers were able to isolate race from other factors, like location and test scores, so these racial preferences appear to operate independently of other factors parents look for in a school.)"

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/education/2016/07/when_white_parents_have_a_choice_they_choose_segregated_schools.html[/quote]

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