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Shepherd covers one of the few black communities in DC that didn't experience Black Flight (which is often missed when discussing white flight). Most middle class black families there didn't move to PG/MoCo when DC declined in the 70-90s and crime didn't spike there. It remains a great place to live.

Yelp...I'd say Brightwood, Chillum, etc. seem to have remained steady. But that's the 800 lb guerilla. DCPS needs Middle Class and UMC black families to buy for advanced programming to be a real option system wide. Those are the families that have remained vested in the city and are not as prone to leave. It's a heavy lift because those scars run deep.
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Those are also the families who definitely do NOT use their by-right public schools like Coolidge---instead, they opt for Wilson (if zoned for it), Walls, Banneker, charter schools like Latin, Basis, DCI and EL Haynes, or else privates like St. John's.  [/quote]

You make absolutely no sense. In your attempt to chastise black folk, you literally contradicted yourself in one sentence. How can black folk NOT use their by-right school of Coolidge if they are zoned for Wilson?

PS- it was these black families as well as other EOTP black families that were attending Wilson 10-40 years ago when the white IB Wilson families were opting out of Wilson so please with all the judgment and finger pointing of black wealthy families (I’m assuming you meant in Takoma and Brightwood and not Shepherd Park) of not opting into their schools. White wealth families are still opting out of thing Hill middle schools, Ward 2/3 Elementary schools, Deal, and Hardy and Wilson in lieu of private and charter schools. It’s okay for wealthy white families to do it but not black?[/quote]

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