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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"Again, you're displaying the dearth of your knowledge of DC public and public charter schools. Charter schools are required to do active marketing and recruiting. They are required to hold blind lotteries for admission. One of the most sought after charters in the city, Yu Ying, is 41% black, 10% Asian, 27% white, 6% hispanic and 16% multiracial. ( http://www.myschooldc.org/schools/profile/230/ ) Do you really think the only reason parents wait overnight outside Yu Ying's gates to enter their lottery is because all the families who go there are wealthy?

You sound like someone living in a bubble of age or geography. You're either 15 years old or you've never (or only recently) set foot in DC. The most specious thing about your argument is the way it mirrors the thinking of people who prefer schools segregated by class and zip code.

I ask in all seriousness, was that your intent?"

I don't know who you're talking to - I wrote the comment about liberal delusion and have not written anything else in this thread.  FWIW, I've lived in DC for decades, have kids in DCPS, and vote Dem.  That doesn't change the fact that the very stats you cite prove my point - 41% black is far less (close to half) of the percentage of black kids in school in DC.  If you know anything about poverty, you would know that the kids who are homeless or living below the poverty level don't have parents who have access to the internet to apply for a lottery, let alone the time and wherewithal to do it.  They are not reached by Yu Ying's (or other "top" charters) outreach efforts, in part because they probably are functionally illiterate.  The "diversity" that you and upper middle class liberals seek by standing in line for a charter lottery is not true social-economic diversity, as the very process of getting into a charter is one that excludes the poorest kids in this city. [/quote]

All right, fine, so you've decided to define "social-economic diversity" in public education as functionally illiterate students.  Everyone else seeks a different kind of diversity as a good thing to have in a school.  Go ahead and choose to send your kids to a school full of illiterate kids, if that's what you want to do.  Everyone else with a choice will send their kids elsewhere, hopefully for them to a school with a quilt full of different kids of people.[/quote]

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