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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It helps more to have honors track, instead of using charters as a solution to help students and families who are more interested in academics.[/quote]

+1, the charters just allow families to self-segregate by socioeconomic class which becomes a proxy for race. If you offered an honors track or some AAP programming at IB schools, and no charters, you'd still lose high SES families to privates but some would choose the public (just as you see in many of the suburban districts). If some high SES families choose their neighborhood public, this makes MC families feel more comfortable attendant them. This would keep not only more white and Asian families in IB schools, but also more MC and UMC black families, many of whom now choose charters or privates to keep their kids out of IB schools with poor academics.

This would result in TRUE diversity. Not just some quota system of races, but kids across a broader range of SES classes from a variety of racial backgrounds. Yes, you'd have to deal with how racism and classism played out in the honors or AAP tracks. But I'd personally rather try to figure that out that the current system, where high SES families just send their kids to mediocre charters and these kids barely even interact. How does that make it better for anyone?[/quote]

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