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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I want to speak up a little (not a lot) for the people who are castigated by articles and studies like this.

The article makes a big deal out of white people wanting their group to be 26% of the middle school population. Aggregated, along with housing segregation (that is real and harmful but no one can wish away short term) and the actual makeup of DCPS this preference creates even more segregated enclaves of white students.

I get the harmful and separative effects. It is hard not to get that segregation is part of what makes success for DC students without successful parents so difficult.

But can we just give a little credit to some people who ask for not blunt walls of segregation, as their grandparents did, or segregation by suburb, as their parents did, but only to have a certain minority percentage of students in the school like their children?  These are not Trump voters or people who "don't see color" or the like.

I agree with sentiments of many others that if white people were more willing to join the system at small percentages below or at their proportions in their neighborhoods, at least, the whole system would be less segregated. Our family is in such a DCPS school (3% white) and likes it while acknowledging that not everyone does or would.

But while we acknowledge the aggregate effects of a mismatch between white student participation (~10%) and desired cohort population (25%) let's at least acknowledge that white DC isn't looking for something that is obviously terrible in terms of racial makeup.  It's a minority of almost 3 to 1.

In context, i.e., combined with class and parental education, unwillingness of probably every parent west of the Anacostia to choose schools in hyper-class and race and education and success-segregated Ward 7 and 8 and all that, sure, there are big problems with segregation.

But the expressed desired percentage issue is not crazy Neanderthal cryptoracism. It just has magnified effects in context.[/quote]

Er, I think that any racial quota requirement is obviously terrible. [/quote]

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