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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]But if the white/Asian/other students were spread equally across schools, their presence would be insignificant to any given school.  Whatever the supposed benefits of diversity by race or SES or whatever wouldn’t exist.

[b]If integration is the goal, having a number of schools where major groups are each 30%-50% of the student population is great.[/b][/quote]

That only works if the overall student population for the district is 30/30/30/10 or whatever. When white kids make up 13% of the district but 50% of the students at certain schools, it means some schools are than 100% Black. [/quote]

Exactly.  You can’t achieve meaningful integration across all schools with the given population.  You can spread everyone out equally, which ultimately doesn’t accomplish anything. Or you can have meaningful integration at a subset of schools.

The posters (and the study, really) complaining about ‘whites clustering’ are missing the fact that that is the best outcome.  There are only a couple of schools that are in the neighborhood of 75% white.  They are outliers.  Quite a few schools are optimal, if meaningful integration is the goal.[/quote]

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