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[quote=Anonymous]Politically, private schools and charter schools and other types of school choice that cause people to abdicate their role in participating in an integrated community ARE problematic because they cause segregation.

There are many reasons why people choose to not participate in their neighborhood schools, ranging from overt racism to class consciousness to covert prejudice to laziness to having a child with special needs to having tried to engage with the neighborhood school and finding your child's needs are not being met.

It's more complicated than just saying "anything other than neighborhood schools is immoral." The ideal is that we have a public education system that services everyone equitably and fairly. That said, the social and cultural and economic realities of our country don't support that right now, and liberals want to effect that positive change to make great schools accessible to all.

It's not immoral to opt out of your neighborhood if you have a substantive reason to/you tried the neighborhood school/you vocalize that conflict. I did all three. It feels bad. I hate it. But we ultimately moved to a "better neighborhood school" which is the same type of selection that having the money to move affords you.

Is it immoral for an educated affluent family to move to Tenleytown to take advantage of a great public school as opposed to choosing to live in Randle Highlands so that your child can "help improve the school?" I'd say no. But the fact that the educational experience at both are so dramatically different yet in the same system is wrong and very troubling. [/quote]

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