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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Easy to look up in the DCPS school profile (Wilson):

Black 32%
Hispanic 22%
White 34%
Asian 6%
Mixed race 5%[/quote]

99% of Hispanics are either fully or partially white in stupid US racial terms, so that's in fact a white majority.[/quote]

In our school systems and when applying to college, the ones whose records I've seen do not check Caucasian. They check Hispanic.[/quote]

Yes, and if you had an Italian-American box many "whites" would check that.

So? Would they stop being racially white?[/quote]

This discussion is deeply stupid.  If you guys actually read the report, you would see that purposes of analysis that's of any interest to people actually trying to help kids, Latinx students are a group have totally different results (reflecting the different challenges of the particular cohort attending Wilson) than white kids.  If we were talking about Latinx kids at WIS or GDS, of course the results would be different and the distinction may be meaningless because those kids probably share much of the experience of their white classmates.  At Wilson, on average, that's not the case and the distinction it completely meaningful in terms of results.  But of course, that's discussion of attempts to help kids, not weird race baiting, which is what PPs are all about (rather pathetically).[/quote]

“Latinx’  LOL.[/quote]

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