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Integration is such a liberal white folks things.  Have you actually talked to any black folks almost none actually want it.  In fact most people are fine with the current DC education landscape.

The key for schools is always the principal.  There are several success stories with public and charters getting real results with at-risk kids.  Its time to take some of the assistant principals at these schools and give them their own schools.  That's the only change that needs to happen.  [/quote]

In fact, many of the black folks I have talked to about school options have specifically mentioned an integrated school as important to them.  And it certainly a focus of black writers/reporters like Nikole Hannah-Jones.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/06/magazine/the-resegregation-of-jefferson-county.html[/quote]

+1.  Black person here (raises hand).  I want integrated schools, and know plenty of other black people who agree with me.  Why revisit this point?  We know from history that predominantly black/brown schools don't get the same resources as white schools (Brown vs. Board, anyone?).  Plus, I think there is value in attending school with people from different backgrounds--I wish more on this thread felt that way.[/quote]

I agree with you on the different background being beneficial thing.  In 2018 schools receive equal funding so that's not an issue.  With open choice if people want to integrate great if not so be it.  I think trying to socially engineer this stuff isn't the way to go.[/quote]

But people don't understand that the educational performance of black students was trending upwards for a long period after the civil rights movement. Integration did work but then all of that became undone and many of those gains were lost. Lost of research on this. Most black people know, myself included that integration works, but at the end of the day white folks really don't want it. You're kidding yourself if you think schools receive equal funding - they in fact do not especially when you start counting the impact of PTA donations. Definitely not equal.[/quote]

[b]At some point as well, studying hard and achieving academically was no longer celebrated in strugglijg black neighborhoods, but instead was derided as “acting white.”  That epithet didn’t help.[/b]
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And your speaking from personal experience, or what you've heard?[/quote]

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