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Integration is such a liberal white folks things.  Have you actually talked to any black folks almost none actually want it.  In fact most people are fine with the current DC education landscape.

The key for schools is always the principal.  There are several success stories with public and charters getting real results with at-risk kids.  Its time to take some of the assistant principals at these schools and give them their own schools.  That's the only change that needs to happen.  [/quote]

In fact, many of the black folks I have talked to about school options have specifically mentioned an integrated school as important to them.  And it certainly a focus of black writers/reporters like Nikole Hannah-Jones.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/06/magazine/the-resegregation-of-jefferson-county.html[/quote]

+1.  Black person here (raises hand).  I want integrated schools, and know plenty of other black people who agree with me.  Why revisit this point?  We know from history that predominantly black/brown schools don't get the same resources as white schools (Brown vs. Board, anyone?).  Plus, I think there is value in attending school with people from different backgrounds--I wish more on this thread felt that way.[/quote]

I agree with you on the different background being beneficial thing.  [b]In 2018 schools receive equal funding so that's not an issue. [/b] With open choice if people want to integrate great if not so be it.  I think trying to socially engineer this stuff isn't the way to go.[/quote]

PP here.  Agree with this in theory, but in practice, that’s not how it works out.  Look at PTA funds at WOTP schools, as just one prominent example of inequity in resources.  Also, affluent communities (in this city and most cities, mostly white) have ways of agitating for resources that poor/minority schools aren’t able to do.[/quote]

The PTA money thing could be equalized by DCPS funding aids for all grades -- that's the main instructional difference.  My admittedly short experience in DCPS indicates that the BIG difference in schools is a strong principal who can retain a talented teaching staff.  I'm not sure that's just a money issue, or if it's also a parent organization issue. [/quote]

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