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[quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]Much of what Kaya, DME, etc. are doing and communicating is very irresponsible.  They're stirring the race pot to support their personal social goals.  This is damaging not only to the school debate, but the city as a whole.  We DO NOT need more race baiting in a city that arguably has some of the worst race issues in the country.  The school "segregation" that has been referenced so much that it's actually accepted as a reality is not even representative of reality.  Look at the stats for Murch:

STUDENT DEMOGRAPHICS
(2013-14)

Enrollment: 626
	 Black: 12%
	 Hispanic/Latino: 8%
	 White: 66%
	 Asian: 9%
	 Pacific/Hawaiian: 0%
	 Native/Alaskan: 0%
	 Multiple races: 5%
	
I would hardly say this is a white, segregated school.  But why bother with the facts when spewing fiction with the knowledge that it will create a perception more powerful than facts is so much more effective at achieving political and social goals?  What's going on here is so BS and so far from logical analysis and informed decision making that it would be funny if it weren't so serious.  None of us could get away with any of this in our jobs (you know, coming up with recommendations based on no research and with no goal of increased success).  Only in DC...[/quote]

Interesting that Murch is 66% white and also 66% inbounds. I suspect those percentages will grow roughly in tandem over the next few years.
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This has been posted in other places before: the 66% in bound is a persistent typo that DCPS hasn't fixed (a Freudian typo perhaps, given the match). Murch has 14% OOB, so 86% inbound. These students are spread fairly evenly throughout the grades, with the largest number in 5th. It will change next year with a large class of OOB students graduating, while enrollment increases to approx. 680; but I'll predict 11% OOB next year (unless the boundaries are redrawn, then who knows!)

And to add to the mix measures of diversity that these stats fail to show: within each of these populations, including the "white" population, you will find students from all over the world, and all over the SES spectrum, with all kinds of family units. So there is diversity within the diversity.[/quote]

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