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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Eastern is a good school regardless if white people will attend or not.  Sheesh!!![/quote]

The truth about DC school demographics is that "white" is used as a proxy for "upper middle class:."  So, upper middle class parents of all races (yes, very definitely including high-earning AA families) want to see white students in significant numbers in their schools.  It's not about the color of their skin, it's about the content of their parents' bank accounts.[/quote]

On that note I'll mention that several dozen white parents attended the EH-Eastern-Jefferson IB curriculum informational meeting last night, mostly Maury folk.  I thought that the three principals and their IB coordinators did a nice job with their presentations.  They convinced me that the IB curriculum represents a big step up for these schools at any rate.  However, I left unconvinced that any white/high SES kids will enroll at any one school, let alone all three, anytime soon.

Did anybody else go and arrive at the same conclusion?  If I had to wager, I'd bet no white kids at any of these schools for another 2-5 years, maybe a small number in 5-10 years.  No great shakes as say in my native New England.

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