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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I like the language and appreciate the working group telling it like it is.  WOTP schools are too white, period.[/quote]

Too white?  Why?  Because EOTR is not white at all?

NW is less white than national averages, and it’s less white than many neighborhoods a mile or two away (ie, in other states but closer than EOTR).

So the problem is the DCPS student population from NW is “too white” compared to the student population EOTR.

So the issues include arbitrary borders, historical housing discrimination, self-selected housing preferences, capitalism-based income disparities, discrimination-based income disparities, etc etc.

But sure.  Why should DCPS focus energetically on using providing the best educational experience to each of its 40,000 students, when, instead, it can focus on “mitigating whiteness”?[/quote]

Because segregation is bad. We have, as a country, shown we are not capable of providing equal educational opportunities for schools with white kids versus schools with black kids. It’s easy in the abstract to oppose segregation, but the reaction here shows how hard it is to deal with in the real world.[/quote]

But my point is that DCPS can’t solve problems for the country, and, more importantly, that it sees the issue from an idiosyncratic angle.

Saying “The schools in NW are too white” is a bizarre thing to say and only makes sense when considering that DC has spent a bunch of recent decades as a majority Black city.”

Or just let me second what a PP said above:  White students are not a “problem” in need of managing.  The zeal to correct large historical wrongs has thrown perspective off.[/quote]

White students aren’t a problem, but increasing concentration of white students (“whitening”) is a problem. It’s good that the city is trying to figure out what to do about it.[/quote]

You realize this comes from people choosing their local DCPS schools, as opposed to opting for private schools, or charters?  It's very strange that this is considered a "problem" in some quarters.  [/quote]

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