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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Magnet schools will not attract white families to send their children to majority black schools. It makes them feel uncomfortable and we all know that if the school is majority black it must not be a safe environment. What will make them send their children there would be enough white students attending the school so that the families would not feel like a minority. Wilson is a good example of this. [/quote]

This is demonstrably untrue. Plenty of white ( and middle class black families ) would-and have- happily sent their children to majority black schools when they have confidence in the program, administration and teachers.[/quote]

It isn't demonstrably untrue. If you were right, Banneker, a school to have confidence in relative to other DC public high schools (other than Walls and Wilson) would be loaded with white families by now.  [/quote]

Hmmm, I wonder what factor could keep white parents from enrolling their children at Banneker.  [/quote]

Banneker is the high school equivalent of an historically black college.  Mostly tradition.[/quote]

So white parents are scared of their child competing with a majority of highly qualified black kids?[/quote]

White parents are respectful of tradition. Or at least, some of them are.[/quote]

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