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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The super weird thing about the idea of 'mitigating whitening' is that what is causing the whitening is more and more WOTP families are choosing public schools. That should be celebrated, and adapted to, with strategies to preserve and promote socioeconomic and ethnic diversity (I'm the PP who wrote that earlier), while welcoming back into the public school system the families that had historically eschewed public schools for privates or moved.

From a social progress perspective, have more WOTP families chose public is not a problem to mitigate, it is a fantastic development to take into account as we work toward integration.[/quote]

You are very right. BUT, no one since Williams and Fenty has seen it that way. The DC government has been pretty clear that they don't actually want students with educated parents in the schools, since we bring expectations for developing our high-achieving students that they would rather not deal with.[/quote]

+1[/quote]

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