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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]But reputation aboslutely turns on race.  Otherwise you can't explain Banneker and Howard MS.  As well as all the parents who deem a neighborhood ES to be "improving" by dint of white enrollment (and no other changes whatsoever.) Really, all you have to do is read DCUM to understand the racial aspects of white DC parent preferences. [/quote]

I agree that deciding on reputation can often reflect race, [b]but I don't agree reputation is primarily driven by race. [/b] People of all races largely live in same-race communities, and most often have a majority of same-race friends.  So when someone turns to her community to get a sense of reputation, she's most often getting same-race feedback.  If a white parent hears 10 of her white neighbors tell her that they're attending School A and it's getting really good, I suspect she's more likely to believe those 10 neighbors and choose School A rather than choose School B, even if School B might have 5% higher scores.  So in that scenario, is our white parent choosing School A because it's more white, or is she choosing it because neighbors she knows and trusts told her it's good?[/quote]

NP here and I disagree with the bolded.  Let's be honest, the first criteria to get HRCS status is a good number of white students.  Several on the list have unimpressive test scores or are so new they don't have scores yet.  Parents can't be sure any learning is going on, but the presence of white students increases their comfort levels.

And as much as crunchy posters here claim to hate Kipp's "drill and kill" style, you better believe they are doing that type of supplementing to make up for loosey goosey teaching at these non-traditional programs.  [/quote]

they SHOULD be drilling at home, but their white privilege leads them to believe "my kid will be fine wherever she goes to school."*

*as long as it has no more than carefully curated diversity. [/quote]

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