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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]07:29, the reason Coolidge, Roosevelt were all white, was because blacks weren't allowed to attend the schools.  Know your history.  Such the case Dunbar and Armstrong had just as many or even more black students enrolled than those two schools combined.  Also, Western (Ellington) had a majority black school population.  So, again the white flight was done but it never impacted the school population.  [b]Get real after, the white flight, the school population ballooned to over 140k students. Which shows more came into our system than departed.  [/b]

I know y'all are happy to see the prek4 through 5th grade having diversity but don't get too excited.  DCPS couldn't handle a majority all-white school system, we are not that progressive.[/quote]

While this is true, it ignores the "black flight" which occurred soon after. In the 80s and 90s, the black middle-class moved to the suburbs. By the mid-90s, the only people left in the system were poor people who had no option of leaving the city, and a handful of wealthy whites living in upper NW.[/quote]

My family was/is neither poor nor white.  You assume that all the Black middle class left the city.  You are mistaken.  My family was not an only.  [/quote]

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