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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This will be interesting to watch.  Do you think those dedicated teachers that signed up to teach at-risk youth will stay at the school to teach the high SES white gentrifiers' kids?  Not sure.

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Charters ended all the conventional thinking about which neighborhoods families sought out, and are opening the floodgates for more getrification.  It's not just about NW and the JKLM, and for that matter it's not just about the gentrified Hill either - I don't think anyone's thinking about charters (or for that matter many other schools) not having many whites will hold.[/quote]

I think this is right, though I agree that if OP is this focused on race then a charter school is not the place for him/her.  Although certain charters (especially some of the newer schools) may be majority AA for the school as a whole, the AA students are actually concentrated in the upper grades while the lower grades are very high majority white.  Each subsequent entering year will likely also be majority white and if then if those kids stay through the higher grades, the racial make up of the schools will change. 
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Many TFA who sign up for combat duty with at-risk youth burn out or move on to other things anyways.  On the flipside, a school with more high-SES students might draw good teachers who wouldn't otherwise touch DC schools with a 10 foot pole for all of the horror stories that we all know about.[/quote]

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