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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No here is what cracks me up.  If everyone actually went to their neighborhood school DCPS would still be massively segregated because guess what DC is overwhelmingly segregated

There are no real integrated areas just areas that are in various stages of gentrifying

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I still think at risk preferences would help. Rich people in gentrifying neighborhoods would be less likely to lottery out of their inbound school, and at-risk people in not-gentrified neighborhoods would have more chance to lottery into a better school. This could help with all the constant churn in EOTP schools. Rich people stay because their choices are limited, at-risk people stay because they had access to better choices. The shortfall is you could eventually get completely gentrified schools a la WOTP, but if you implement at risk set asides now (in addition to lottery preferences), maybe you could [b]keep the school diversity.[/b][/quote]

I don't believe this for a minute.  Set asides would simply motivate affluent families to find creative new ways to get around sending their children with lots of low-performing students, e.g. pursuing legal challenges to poorly implemented set asides  The set asides would almost certainly become a tool of the AA middle-class to secure spots in desirable schools, without helping the poor much, like so many other government programs designed to help the neediest citizens (e.g. rent control to help the poor but mainly benefiting the middle class).  A municipality is much better off using carrots to promote integration than sticks, e.g. school-within-a-school GT and language immersion programs.  I attended a GT program in a low-income neighborhood as a child.  The program successfully lured many UMC families of different races to a Title1 school they would have avoided otherwise.  Although our academic classes were segregated by ability, our electives and specials (PE, art, music) were not, and all the kids mingled on the playground, in the cafeteria etc.  Much better than total segregation if not ideal.
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