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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]By design co-ed schools try to have gender parity which is good. Now, my question is if they should continue to have some race targets. What I see is that in private schools they want to accept racially diverse students, but income wise very homegenous families. It is ok to keep this approach? Is it fair? Just basic questions since dc is so diverse and there are so many schools, not sure schools really need affirmative action. Moreover many times the non-white recruitment is highly discrecional. For some schools mean admitting more African Americans and for others more Asians. But is not clear that this is a fair or inclusive system at all since the admissions are highly dependent on the income of the parents. [/quote]

OP, here's the thing. This is a pointless post and conversation because these are private schools. They can do whatever they want to, including deciding that they want an entire student body of purple people. What you or I think is not important. If you don't like the way a particular school handles this issue, send your kids to a different one.[/quote]

It’s pointless because schools never truly cared about diversity in the first place. What the schools - and the families at the schools - want is a school full of wealthy families. As wealthy as possible with a few middle class kids thrown in occasionally, esp if they play a sport really well.

It’s a business. 
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