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[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 [b]that's what I want my kids [/b]to keep experiencing. [/quote]

This is what is preventing us from having more integrated schools.  Individual families making choices for the benefit of their own child.  Opportunity hoarding. I want what is "best" for my child.

Somewhere along the line we as a society decided to condition parents to "want what is best" for their child, at the expense of the community. As a society, we need to value our community above adding one more privilege for our child.  We need to consider what is best for all children, more than adding one more benefit to our individual child. For most people on this thread, and many in our community, picking what is best for the community will not hurt our child one bit.[/quote]

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