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Sure. But it also means that "black people prefer schools where most people are black" and "Hispanic people prefer schools that are majority Hispanic."

All of this talk in busing in Arlington, for example, never even asks what people in Four Mile Run wanted -- it was just assumed that they would be overjoyed to put their children on a bus to Yorktown HS. And look at who made the assumptions. And the one time James Lander -- a black man, mind you -- raised the suggestion that minority communities might not be thrilled with busing, either, people lost their shit.[/quote]

Well, yes, given the choice between a homogeneous school in your neighborhood or a heterogeneous school where your kids are bused across town to provide the diversity, most people are going to choose the homogeneous school in the neighborhood.

That doesn't mean that the people in Four Mile Run believe that segregated schools are dandy. It means that, given two bad choices, they're choosing the one they consider less bad.[/quote]

So then this isn't really even a SCHOOL POLICY issue, it's a HOUSING POLICY issue. And, again, there's this little problem about people preferring to congregate with their kind in housing communities, either due to economic factors (and income inequality) or social and cultural preferences. [/quote]

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