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"WOTP slots for kids from outside of the immediate neighborhood should be going to low income kids from poorly performing schools not to middle class kids who can easily be bundled into a new set of high performing schools EOTP.  And that will incidentally maintain WOTP diversity and increase it EOTP - I trust that you understand diversity can also be inclusive of white and middle class families and doesn't just mean a school with some number of minority students?[/quote]

And I'm saying this as someone who works in political consulting...  while it may be earnest (giving you the benefit of the doubt), those set-aside slots will seem insignificant and ephemeral politically and the people who win them have no baked-in constituency since they are random lottery winners.  But the parents at Bancroft and Shepherd are loud.  As are the middle-class families from Brookland and Hillcrest who use OOB slots now.    The headline will be "mayor kicks hispanic and black students out to create a gentrified Deal"

Try again.[/quote]

DP.  Also, I think it's just a really weird social dynamic to have rich white WOTP kids attend school with low-income kids, who will be like, 99% black/Hispanic students.  If I were white (I'm not), I'd want my white kids to attend school with some middle class kids of color, too.  If Bancroft/Shepherd are kicked out, and OOB slots are only reserved for low-income kids, that won't happen, since most black/Hispanic middle class families don't live WOTP.

This may not be a strong argument, but that sort of set-up doesn't appeal to me.  That would be one segregated lunchroom.[/quote]

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