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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Its understandable that one would prefer schools where their children can see other people like them and not feel alienated but if Asians won't enroll their kids in local schools, how are these schools ever going to have any diversity? If DCPS can attract them to local schools, it really can add fresh air for everyone. New and different perspectives can invigorate a learning community. This is America, we don't need segregation, we need inclusion.[/quote]

I’m Asian and was interested in DCPS but [b] DCPS has made it abundantly clear that they tolerate white kids, care about AA kids and don’t give a damn about Asians. [/b]I don’t really think they care about Latinos either. [/quote]

Curious why you feel this way. [/quote]

It's demographics and power.  DCPS is majority black so those will always be catered too first.  Hispanics fail to max there political clout anywhere, same with asians and in DC there are barely any asians in DCPS.  White people have more of both but there numbers quickly decrease after elementary schools so most of DCPS just chooses to ignore them.      [/quote]

...plus. a lot of the white families are cowed by the fear of being called "racist" or "not an ally" and so they won't speak up. There's a population of vocal black folks and their wokey woke white enablers who have decided that any white person who demands academic excellence (for all kids) is secretly seeking to oppress POC. (Take a moment and consider how regressive that is - demanding academic excellence for all kids is anti-black!) I swear to you there are people in DC who actually believe that their kids should suffer or accept less than an excellent education as some sort of concession prize to black folks for our country's shameful history of slavery and systemic racism. Never understood that mentality.

Personally, I:
1. Don't care what you call me. My liberalism isn't performative, it is real and rooted in a desire to see a high quality education provided to all kids in DC.
2. Think it is perverse and regressive that we have decided that "equity" means teaching to the bottom or lowering standards.
3. Won't put my kids at risk (physically, emotionally, academically) so that some performative liberal talking point will look kindly on me and mine.
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