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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thanks. Long PP Banneker poster. Glad to see I’m not on an island. Look, I get that it can be scary to be a first. But it’s done all the time. I get the sense that once a DC school gets to about 10% white, it seems ripe for gentrifying for white folk. They usually do this in an concerted, planned effort. (See CH schools and most recently Hardy middle school). Recent parents that have begun to gentrify Hardy are not your typical “racist”, sure. They wouldn’t even consider any DC schools if that were the case, yet alone one that is 80% black. But there is still something inherently racist about not considering one of the top schools in the country. Especially Banneker. I mean it’s not a Lean On Me type school. You’re DC is not going to be jumped for wearing the wrong colors.

Seriously, why haven’t a group of 10-20 families joined together to commit to Banneker the same way they did to Hardy 5 years ago?[/quote]

Ok, so basically you're making sweeping judgments about all of DC school choice and racism based on ONE school which remains unpopular with white kids?

Let me concede that many families do not want to be able to count the other kids of their race on one hand at their school. Does this apply only to white children? In a prior post, another report was quoted which indicated that "same-group" preference was stronger among all races in middle and high school; in elementary school, only white families showed strong same group preferences. However, I do not think this is the end of the story. I think you need to look more carefully at what choices are being made by who and why.

I personally admit, we did not list our in-bound or another local charter (ward 5) partly because the percentage of white children was so very low, that our child would have been the only one. But, that was one of many considerations, and we did put her in a daycare and summer camp with similar proportions. I actually am now sad that her current school has fewer Black and Hispanic kids each year thanks to growing popularity among white families.

I think that most on here would love to have a great mix of several races, and income levels, at their child's school. A few schools more or less do achieve this balance. They may not be in Ward 3 (which should be studied separately, IMHO, due to its essentially suburban nature), but they ARE the schools most discussed here outside of W3.

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DP.  You're essentially saying, "well no one wants to be the lonely only" to absolve yourself while ignoring that this is a different issue for black kids in white schools, due to institutional racism throughout the history of our country.[/quote]

DP. But no one is saying black kids “should” go to majority white schools to “prove” anything. [/quote]

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