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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Hispanics decided themselves to move in and convert large areas of Hutchison and Herndon in general to 75% or greater Hispanic, enough to fit an entire high school. Clearly contrary to the privileged posters here, the Hispanics do not seem to care strongly how diverse their school is and could in fact be said to prefer a homogenous community of each other.
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Meh. Initially settling where people you know or acquainted with is the story of chain migration for centuries. Our latest newcomers are no different than those who came before. In a generation or two they will disperse and integrate more. This is the way.[/quote]

That was the way when we had a “melting pot” or even “salad” concept of differing ethnic origins.  People were expected to integrate while retaining some of the flavor of their country/culture of origin (continuing my culinary analogies lol)

The current mainstream cultural ideology is that every group should retain 100% of where they originated and fight for place and power in the white western cis hetero capitalist patriarchal society that is founded on slavery oppression and violence.[/quote]

Even if one were to believe that is the case, the proponents of that ideology won't support the opening of a new high school that draws only from low-income, majority Hispanic feeders.

They would want a school with socio-economic balance where the White and Asian kids could be reminded regularly of their privilege, rather than ensconced in their bubbles of affluence.

So you might want to dust off the "melting pot" and "salad" analogies, which may serve you better in the long run.  [/quote]

Mixing a school as much as possible by every measure and then teaching the kids to see each other primarily through the lens of race religion and ethnic origin, with an emphasis on how they are all so different and constantly discussing historical grievances would be very effective in fomenting division.

They can have teachers point out the various privileges and advantage some students have and make sure the others know that society is structurally so that they themselves will never be able to provide some of that for their own children.

When this inevitably increases tensions and makes the school extra toxic, fcps can hire a consultant and give them a few hundred thousand to send a google survey and figure out why. (If there’s one thing they love, it’s throwing a few hundred k and consultants every five minutes).

The idealogy is toxic regardless of the racial and socioeconomic  mix of the schools, which have changed and will continue to change over time.[/quote]

I agree with this, apart from the fact that it's a straw-man argument when it comes to what they would actually do if they built a new HS near Hutchison and, instead, identified feeders to the school that were all relatively close to the school and resulted in a diverse high school that was not super-majority FARMS from its inception. [/quote]

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