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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My children live in NE less than a mile from the center of the city. Let's stop the term "inner city youth" if what you actually mean is "poor black and brown youth".

I'm tired of hearing how Washington DC should be for all the people in all 8 wards and all children should have high quality education -- when the people who say that really mean we should only focus resources on the least among us and screw anyone who is white and/or moderately successful.

The new middle class in DC is not necessarily all AA and not able to afford $40k a year for private school, but we have bought homes and pay our taxes. If you don't want us to stay, block us out of the charters that keep us here, because our IB options are bad. We will flee to the suburbs and Martel can have his educational utopia of ensconced rich kids in private schools/ward 3 DCPS and hard-case kids in the charters.[/quote]

No one is saying new residents shouldn't have good schools, access to charters, whatever.

The reactions here have me womder if the numbers in the Matthews article are less accidental than I first thought.[/quote]

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