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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hey High SES white Parent from BM - are any of the low/lower SES black and brown parents or even the high SES black and brown parents expected to feel sorry for you at this particular moment in our country when everything is being turned back to the 1950s by our federal government? Are you attuned at all to what is happening in this country and the attack on black and brown people? Perhaps you support it - I don’t know. I suspect you can make a lot of choices because of the privilege of your white skin and your money - I know I can. Ultimately, you will make BM whatever you want it to be over time and the numbers of “others” will dwindle.  We know this will happen - look at every dual-language/immersion program across the city. We know that families like yours flock to the programs BECAUSE it ultimately erects barriers for people or color, low-income people, kids with special needs, etc.  At least my high SES white friends at such schools honest about this. As for me, I am not interested in any of it. My kids are doing great at their Title I non-immersion school. And I am not interested in drama.[/quote]

Wow. Way to attack for no reason.  I did not “flock” to the school, we didn’t get in anywhere else.  Just trying to offer an additional perspective to the article. There are a lot of factors at play at title 1 gentrifying schools. WaPo loves these articles and doesn’t try to show multiple angles.  [/quote]

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