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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think it is quite a stretch to say that "white people don't want" integration when Deal and Wilson are the most integrated schools in the city.  Clearly, white folks like those schools. But there aren't enough white students left over to meaningfully integrate at many other public schools than those. Basis charter, I guess, but it is pretty well integrated too; Hardy seems to be attracting more white folks recently.  Unless everyone's REAL concern is that a small cadre of elementary schools located in Upper Caucasia (where all the white people live) have a majority of white students in those schools.  If that's what is troubling you, then your problem is not really policy, but something more fundamental to your world-view.[/quote]

Well, that is an issue, because the NW schools exist in the same system with 90% at-risk all-black schools doing much more poorly.  An at-risk OOB set-aside in the lottery would address some of this, as long as DCPS ALSO invested in increasing capacity at those schools.  But, unless the idea is to dissolve ward 7 and 8 schools and bus all those kids to NW, it's hard to see how even an at-risk set aside in the lottery addresses the whole problem.  I do think DC has a lot of positive things going for diversity -- just look at the integrated charters, and some DCPS schools.  But as we all know, that peters out at MS.  Anyone who truly cares about diversity would have to focus on improving the MS and HS pathways for the integrated charters and DCPS schools.   But yeah, at the end of the day, diversity can't be the only metric to judge DC schools.  [/quote]

I don't understand just which upper NW schools are troubling you, as there aren't that many of them?  Wilson:  check, the most integrated in the city.  Deal:  check, probably the second-most integrated.  Hardy:  check, increasingly integrated.  So, if "that peters out at MS," what OTHER middle schools in upper NW are troubling you?  In contrast, I'd say "the white folks" are behaving in a non-racist way.  What gives?[/quote]

Deal and Wilson are only integrated now because of OOB, right? So the issue is the NW elementary schools that have trended to all white, and the loss of OOB spots that will trickle up to Deal and Wilson and reduce diversity there.  Also happening on the Hill -- as neighborhoods gentrify and the pipeline of OOB/sibling black students ends, the schools are quickly losing diversity.  [/quote]

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