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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The study is interesting, but it neglects the city's role in creating a situation of oversized overly white schools. The city chose to renovate mostly northwest schools, it also failed to plan enough space when it renovated them and failed to address overcrowding issues. Because of overcrowding schools cannot take out of boundary students. The people who love in the neighborhood are white.[b] The city also treats out-of-boundary students as a lower status when they get to the school (e.g. need to lottery for pre-K and to have siblings attend).[/b] My kids go to an overcrowded school, and we lament the lack of diversity. Also the larger the school size the more hits it would likely have, and the "high attention" schools are large. Also, a renovated school will attract attention, and many low attention schools are in decrepit buildings. I disagree that only white elite parents post on dcum. It needs to be considered that most participants in the lottery are people of color, and that they too research and compare schools. Also, the charter schools that have high attention, such as basis, latin, SWW and others are diverse. It is the special offerings that attract parents AND the opportunity for diversity as opposed to the desire to segregate racially. DCPS could try harder to meet the needs that these charters address to bring more diversity to its own schools. I think that the findings definitely are interesting but do not tell the whole story.[/quote]

How do schools treat OOB students differently?  All students have to lottery for PK, in bounds or not.  [/quote]

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