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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wilson HS is an example of a good school, with white and black (and many other) students, rich kids, poor kids, kids who live in mansions, kids who live in small apartments, kids from all over the world, the whole thing.  This is the closest thing DC has to what this article is talking about.  And yes, the white kids clearly do quite well, and I think all the kids in that building are have a richer high school experience.  So, academics and social benefits come together.

But that only works because the Wilson has all the academic and extracurricular offerings.  That's where the article differs from what could apply in DC.  No way the schools in DC are even remotely equal in quality and offerings, even schools that are just blocks apart.  So, even if there were some social benefit to more diversity, I doubt the academic outcome would remain the same without some serious supplementing.  In which case, the inequalities stay the same, even if the classrooms themselves look different.

First you fix the schools.  THEN (all caps!) you start talking about moving kids around.[/quote]

In DC there is not enough of that well described mixture of students. A few rich kids will do the best publics and charters , the rest will peel off for private..same with middle class (I'm talking all races for both categories). You just don't have enough of those families interested in the public or public charter option to sprinkle through all the schools in D C.From my experience, those families often demand or create/contribute varied offerings and high educational expectations. You can't do one without the other.. As DC becomes.more middle class schools have reached tipping points where these families jump in, but they are loathe to be the first unless they are founding a charter. Its gradual, and it can't be forced. Its based on both offerings and seeing a base of other middle class/upper class students in attendance.[/quote]

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