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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some schools in top publics are not very diverse.  There are several schools in my county where my kids private schools (not all that diverse) are more diverse than some of the publics.  There are some schools with very few blacks and hispanics and some schools with very few blacks, hispanics and Asians.[/quote]

I see this a lot from private school parents who don't have kids in public schools.  It's wrong.  It's especially wrong when you consider economic diversity.[/quote]

Are you kidding me.  My local public school is almost completely White and Asians.  Virtually no blacks or hispanics, no rentals, no apartments.  It does have a decent amount of townhomes but the majority of the homes are single family.  The cheapest housing approx. 350k and not very many of them.  The average housing price is probably 600K, if not higher.  Trust me, it has less economic diversity, and racial diversity than a lot of privates.  So yes, my biracial child gets more economic and racial diversity in private.  I grew up in classrooms being the only black child, if I can avoid having my child experience this then I will.

Of course I do not have much sympathy for parents who live in extremely wealthy areas and then complain about diversity (precisely what I'm doing) because they chose where to live and could move if they really wanted diversity.  I figured my kids would get diversity either in our neighborhood, at school or both in school and our neighborhood.  We will continue to evaluate private and public and do what we think is best for a child.  Right now private is working for us and my child has black, white and Asian friends.  What I really like about the school is that they are teaching the kids values, respect, treating each other fairly and most important inclusion. [/quote]

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