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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]White students represent 12% of all DCPS+charter students and 16% of DCPS students. But yes, let's contract an expensive study to mine a discussion forum and blame those moms for not doing more to integrate schools.[/quote]

Yet somehow white students account for the following at all city schools:

45% at Basis
45% at Latin 
50% at Walls
44% at Inspired 
34% at Creative Minds (3 start school)
...
1% at Banneker (higher ranked nationally than Latin and Basis)

You still argue DC white folk don’t intentionally self-segregate? One would think Banneker would at least have 16% white to match city’s demographics.

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Come on, the Banneker situation, discussed many times on DCUM, is the HS equivalent of an HBC (Historically Black College). Banneker has never tried to draw in a cohort of white students, nor does it exclude white students.   As Jeff explained earlier in the thread, Banneker is a special space for minority students that white families respectfully leave alone.  That may change with the new, larger Banneker building.  The District is more than 40% white in this century, and minority Black, so it's no surprise that we see white numbers percentages rising above 40% various public schools. [/quote]

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