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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]By design co-ed schools try to have gender parity which is good. Now, my question is if they should continue to have some race targets. What I see is that in private schools they want to accept racially diverse students, but income wise very homegenous families. It is ok to keep this approach? Is it fair? Just basic questions since dc is so diverse and there are so many schools, not sure schools really need affirmative action. Moreover many times the non-white recruitment is highly discrecional. For some schools mean admitting more African Americans and for others more Asians. But is not clear that this is a fair or inclusive system at all since the admissions are highly dependent on the income of the parents. [/quote]

Sorry, but we’re a full pay black family and have been in private schools since K for both children and it doesn’t matter how dedicated a school was to diversity, progressive or conservative, we have never NOT been one of only a few black families in our grade. Usually I’ve seen maximum 3-5 black kids per grade (if lucky). A couple of Asians, a few Indians here and there .. but the schools are always predominantly white. It never even close. At the mid/lower tier privates there is more diversity, but at the top schools.. forget about it.

All that to say, “should schools do away with diversity initiatives?” Implies that these diversity initiatives are actually making the schools diverse. I’m sorry they aren’t. When you’re touring schools, take the time to count the number of non-white students to white. DEI initiatives have been a thing for decades and still my daughter is one of only 5 black kids in her grade. The real question is, why aren’t there top elite black Private schools? No black boarding schools? College prep super exclusive schools with predominantly Indian kids? [/quote]

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