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[quote=Anonymous]The PP wanting more than just average college and job prospects for her child is not at all an outlier.

That is the crux of DC’s challenge.  To way oversimplify, SE DC is a population of low and some middle-income families whose parents grew up locally.  Such a description applies to many places across the US.  In this instance, SE DC is urban and AA.

NW DC’s population (plus nearby MD) is skimmed from the highest achievers nationally and even internationally.  It is an uncommon population of a sort that is found in this size and concentration in only a few places, such as parts of Manhattan and Silicon Valley.  In most cities, this level of affluence would be found only in a couple of suburbs.  While the ethnic make-up of NW looks “white” in comparison to SE, NW isn’t all that far off of national averages.

DC and DCPS have to work for both the regular, local population in SE and the rarified population in NW.

Racism is often cited as the cause of the difference in outcomes for the two sides of the city, but really the chasm between the two populations is much wider and deeper than race.[/quote]

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