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Look up "paper bag test"

So the little girl isn't black enough for you? Good to know."

My son is half black and half white.  The girl looks like my son.  The little girl is beautiful and perfect as she is.

My point is that the vast majority of children in the DC Public School system are black children.  In planning a school here, even in the sitting around in the living room with the web designer stage, I would hope that people would be aware of the environment and history and some of the discrimination dark skinned black people still face in this world and this city.  I would hope they would aim to reflect the beauty of every kind of child.   
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Can you provide your stats on the "vast majority of children in DC public schools are AA"

I know from this most recent census data, AA make up 50% of DC population and cacausians 47%.

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From the link mentioned above [url]http://greatergreatereducation.org/post/19691/dcs-most-diverse-charter-schools/[/url]

"The overall picture in DC is that charter schools are disproportionately African-American. In a city that is just barely majority black, the percentage of black students in charter schools is 79%. In DCPS schools, the percentage is 69%. Much of the explanation for this is location: Wards 7 and 8, which are about 95% black, have over 40 charter schools between them. On the other hand, Ward 3, which is about 80% white, has none."

I am not a math wiz, but if 44% of kids are in charters, I think that means black students comprise about 73% of our public school system overall.
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You are not a math wiz.

You can't just add up those numbers like that. You'd need the raw numbers that Dave was working with to recalculate the information for all the schools. It's easy enough to get as DCPS and DCPCS has it on its website.  I assure you the numbers don't reflect a "vast majority" of kids are AA. [/quote]

1) Who is Dave? Obviously you know something that the rest of us don't, because that article was written by someone named Steven.

2) How you take a system that is 69% (DCPS) and 79% (Charter) African American and come up with something that is not a "vast majority"? Do you not consider 69% OR 79% a vast majority?

3) If it is "easy enough" to get that data from the website, please do so and report back with your crazy different results!

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