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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This topic keeps coming up because people refuse to look at the history and see just how bad DCPS fucked up "tracking" for several generations before home rule. Now,[b] the people who were the victims of that situation[/b] have enough political clout to keep it from coming back, even though the "solution" is no solution at all.[/quote]

You mean, the (mostly white) families who had to leave the city because of the (mostly black) crime?

We can talk decades-old history, or we can talk current problems and solutions
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Those (mostly white) families left after [i]Brown [/i] mainly because they didn't want their children to share classrooms with black children.

Not so different from today, although certain black children are acceptable if they come from high SES families or are willing to learn Mandarin.[/quote]

[b]Spare us this god awful BS.  Ignore the miserable, hackneyed race-baiting everybody.  We're too far into this century to tolerate it.[/b]

DCPS' refusal to give schools a fighting chance to differentiate effectively obviously motivates high SES, and other strongly education-minded parents, of all stripes to amalgamate around certain schools.  I've seen how low and moderate income black kids (including recent immigrants from Africa and the Caribbean) who can keep up with run-of-the-mill high SES kids, or even move ahead of them academically, are embraced with open arms in schools.

DC isn't a racist town, it's one without many high performing public schools.

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Right, everyone please calm down. Didn't you know? Racism's gone! Over! Whew, thanks, PP. I feel a lot better now.[/quote]

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