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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]

True of Brookland I guess, but lots of white kids in Bloomingdale and Shaw go to Seaton.  I know a 3rd grsder.  And when Langley got a competent, permanent principal, high-SES folks started enrolling.  Yes there is a long way to go, but it's not like people won't attend at all.

DCPS needs to cure its administrative failings before anything really changes.[/quote]

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