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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If this was really about race, you'd see daycares being segregated too. (Why would all these supposedly racist people wait until elementary or high school to start being racist?)

But has anyone ever heard of a black daycare? Or a predominantly white daycare?

No, no one has ever heard of that.

That's because this isn't about race. This is about public schools in DC being awful and people not wanting to send their kids to awful schools.

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Oh, but that discussion is about nannies v. daycare.  [/quote]

i have kids and honestly ive never met anyone who has a nanny. people with nannies seem rare. [/quote]

That's because we aren't rich.  The people who I know with nannies are like my ob/gyn, my boss, etc.  Or maybe think not individual nannies, but nanny-shares.  Or maybe think au pairs.

But the dialogue there seems to be that the BEST thing is to have a nanny or au pair, then the next is to have a nanny share, then daycares.  These discussions are likely also racially coded, in the sense that race and class go hand-in-hand, particularly in DC.[/quote]

I think you're missing the point. The larger point here is that daycares are extremely diverse (at least all the ones I've ever come into contact with), and that shouldnt be the case if everyone is supposedly as racist as people on this thread to seem assume. [/quote]

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