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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]as a middle-class AA parent i find this thread completely ridiculous. no middle-class black parents in DC? this is because you don't know them or aren't friends with them. just because they don't exist for you doesn't mean that they're not here. i see them among my diverse set of friends in the charters and yes even in DCPS. they're parents like natalie hopkinson, who was just in the NYT with this commentary on school choice.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/05/opinion/why-school-choice-fails.html?scp=1&sq=natalie%20hopkinson&st=cse

among AA parents the discussion is about class, not race. if you took out color, many of the lowest-achieving students are low-income. that's why so many charters like KIPP, DC Prep and Achievement Prep Academy started--they wanted to get rid of the low-income factor as an automatic barrier to achievement.[/quote]

I think PP was speaking statistically.  Of course there are middle-class black parents in DC.  It's just that their numbers are dwarfed by poor black parents.  If you removed all the poor people from DC, it would have the same demographic profile as any other upper-middle class neighborhood, say, PG County.[/quote]

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