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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People using their neighborhood schools instead of charters would help. There are plenty of integrated neighborhoods in DC, white people just don’t want to send their kids to the local school.[/quote]

Our charter (Spanish immersion) is far more integrated than our neighborhood school. If everyone in my neighborhood right now started attending our neighborhood school, it would be pretty diverse, however. So, I get your point. With that said, our charter is truly diverse in terms of SES and race and ethnicity and that's what I want my kids to keep experiencing. [/quote]

I understand that your charter school is integrated and you like that, but unfortunately that experience is not available to every student in DC. Yes, the lottery is fair but they absolutely contribute to segregated schools. Look at Brookland or Bloomingdale. White families in those neighborhoods reject traditional public schools in favor of charters, which makes the neighborhood schools segregated-even if the charters are integrated.[/quote]

Newsflash- those neighborhood schools have ALWAYS been segregated, as have the neighborhood schools in Ward 3 ever since the people there started sending a higher percentage of their kids and slowly blocked out the out of boundary kids.  Are charters perfect?  Of course not.  But it's a weird argument to knock down the biggest bright spot of integration over the last 20 years.  I am all for anything which disconnects schools from the housing market.[/quote]

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