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[quote=Anonymous][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]

blaming white parents for not enrolling their kids in failing schools - like Eastern High where zero, ZERO of the kids meed math targets, is a great way to deflect from the terrible education being given to black kids in DC. The poster obsessed with why Banneker doesn’t have more white kids needs to open their eyes. [/quote]

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