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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Aren’t they adding schools in NW?[/quote]

Anything could happen.  DC is even studying a 100 percent lottery assignment system, with string at risk preferences..  In 5 years AU Park students might be assigned Hearst or even to a school in SE, not necessarily their neighborhood school.  This is the only way to address DEI meaningfully in DCPS.[/quote]

[b]The surest way to start a new wave of white flight[/b], just like in San Francisco. Even the staunchest progressives won’t have their kids bused from AU Park to SE. They will not be dumb enough to do this.[/quote]

And why would this be such as bad thing?  DCPS would become more diverse, with more inclusive access to top performing schools.[/quote]

DCPS would become less diverse under such a plan. Exponentially so.[/quote]

It depends on your view what diversity is.  It would certainly accelerate DCPS becoming anti-racist.[/quote]

A school system exclusively populated by poor black and brown kids is neither diverse nor anti-racist.[/quote]

Yes, this is what DC schools were like when I was coming up. They were not diverse or anti racist. They were underperforming and scary. Those of us who could went to parochials and privates. My parochial that I attended was all middle and lower middle class black families, fleeing .[/quote]

Huh. Define ‘brown’ because that encompasses a lot of people.

And there aren’t as many Asian people in DC. Adding whites does help with diversity but you all tend to stick to your own. Like many groups.

Also having less whites may make it less racist but the goal is to help white children too. If they aren’t around other people how will they learn? It is not the same for POC children because they are bombarded with white figures in the media and toys.

Just to make sure people don’t think I’m saying this is exclusive to white people, similarly when I was young and visiting family in South Korea and neighborhood boy rubbed my skin and asked why the ‘dirt’ wouldn’t rub off. He did not know I was part Mexican and sometimes Mexican people are brown. There’s less brown people there and in the media.

No exposure causes ignorance. [/quote]

There are plenty of ways that our city can foment "exposure" without misguided and doomed to backfire communist like techniques . Charter schools and voucher choices were one of the best ways to broaden educational-geographical offerings in our city in a long time, along with the lottery system. Folks have far more say and.mobility in their kids choices, without being forced into something. As to housing, the city could use their excess funds for specific groups of people (long time residents, rent to buy etc) rather than just encouraging rampant building that will provide more housing to yuppies from Arlington .[/quote]

Oh this is hilarious. [/quote]

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