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DP, but I thought it was clear elementary was being referenced.  Most are not very racially diverse, especially in the lower grades.[/quote]

Another DP - The two NW elementary schools my kids have gone to are wonderfully diverse in terms of having children from all sorts of racial, ethnic, and national backgrounds.

However, to some people in DC, “diverse” does not mean *actually* diverse, but instead means majority AA.  [/quote]

This. I see a lot of posters incorrectly identifying their majority low income AA school as diverse. That's actually not diverse at all. Deal and Wilson would still be extremely diverse even if the OOB feeder program ended. It's just that it would also serve a decent amount of white people which a lot of our politicians and constituents wouldn't abide. It's a shame because this paradigm is keeping DCPS from improving its schools to acceptable levels. For example, keeping the OOB feeder program which is hurting Deal and Wilson, sending Brent and Maury kids to Jefferson instead of SH, etc. First get most of the schools up to acceptable performance levels, then tinker with boundaries for diversity if needed. SH could be a much better school if Brent and Maury fed to it, but they're perceived as too wealthy & white. It would also help the large POC population at SH but instead it's more important to ensure that a some white kids DON'T get something. Also, much of DC seems to view diversity as black vs white. There are lots of types of diversity.

I'm beginning to believe DC won't ever get its act together because of these political issues.[/quote]

I think part of the diversity that a lot of people are talking about is economic diversity.  My kid was one of three white boys in his middle school class, but when the entire class is made up of children of ex-pat parents working for NGOs, lawyers, bankers and academics, it's not really meaningfully diverse.

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I think the whole debate would be more accurate and productive if it were focused on economics rather than race.  But when that’s suggested, people pipe up insisting that “you can’t separate race and economics in DC.”  I don’t understand why not.

It seems only two categories are allowed:  low-income AA and “white and wealthy,” which apparently means everyone else, whether they are Indian or Asian or low-income white or wealthy AA or whatever.[/quote]

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