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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Anyone else find the title of this thread INCREDIBLY racist and offensive?
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The racism is what drove and still drives the achievement gap. Discussing it isn't racist.

In fact the title seems the opposite of racist. The OP asked if schools were getting better, or the implied alternative is whiter but not better. It's acknowledging that whiter may be seen as better but that doesn't mean they are getting better.

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DP.  This is a really good point and I agree.  Because the thread title is a question I've been asking myself about DCPS ever since the school boundary brouhaha a few years ago.  Actually, I started thinking about it a few years before that, when Michelle Rhee was the chancellor.

I'm like any other parent, trying to weigh what's best for our family - except that my family is black, and that little factor changes the calculation in ways that a white parent can't even conceive.  Even if I told you all the ways, a white parent would likely say that's ridiculous.  And they have.  Said that.  To my face.

One of those ways is being offended - all the time.  I had to stop reading this forum because so many posters are incapable of [i]thinking [/i]about how offensive it is to read that many white parents would be offended if my kid showed up in their kid's classroom.  Many have posted about the lengths they'd go to see if they could get my kid removed and shame his parents in the process.  And this is primarily at the "good" schools in the "good" neighborhoods - all of which we could easily afford, but maybe you can understand why we'd choose to live elsewhere.  And a lot white parents will get offended by that and call me racist.  Okay.

I guess I'm just saying that the thread topic is a very good question.  I think the answer is both - getting better and getting whiter.  But I have to acknowledge the irony that it doesn't necessarily mean better for my kid.  Because he's not white.
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Sounds like you have a large chip on your shoulder and have decided to see racism where it doesn't exist.  People have a hard time understanding the difference between SES and race on this forum.  In DC almost all lower SES people are non-white.  Plenty of people on here are classist but if you are looking out for the best for your kid as you claim to be doing you would be doing the same thing. Ask yourself do you want to interact with lower class 
blacks? or do you do what almost all middle class and higher blacks do, playing the lottery going private or moving instead of attending or interacting with a largely lower SES black/hispanic school.  It's not just DC PG has the same issues where almost anyone of means goes private, or magnet and avoids the public schools after elementary
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