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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am happy to say I know other white parents (I'm white myself) who are just as disturbed as I am by some of the statements I described. Regarding PTA tensions, I also think there's an unfortunate tendency among some (by no means all) gentrifiers to buy [b]Still, negative assumptions about black kids in schools are very deeply ingrained in many parents (not all of them white).[/b]into the idea that their very presence constitutes an improvement and expect to be welcomed with open arms, as opposed to accepting that they are newbies and treading lightly.
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Negative assumptions?  When white kids hit 3rd grade in Hill schools, and take the DC-CAS (without cheating), more than half test "advanced" versus 2-4% of AA kids in the same schools.   Meanwhile, in Rockville and Bethesda roughly 20% of AA kids test advanced on the MoCo DC-CAS equivalent.  The low-income and lower-middle-class AA population in DCPS scares many high-SES parents off races away for good reason.  That's why DCPS needs gifted and talented/advanced learners programs in a big way, yet shuns them as being unfair.  Hard to argue that the very presence of whites doesn't in fact constitute improvement when the peer group they provide to DCPS arrives much better prepared to learn than the pre-whites peer group.  I'm distrubed by the fact that my Stanton Park neighborhood property taxes support LT, not by truthful statements made here.

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