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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Seems like this forum has seen a lot of visits from the ghost of DCPS past. Gimme the voucher or Wilson or we’re all moving to NoVa or St Albans while dumping on EOTP schools and telling black kids to pull themselves up by their bootstraps. Or maybe somebody’s just bored at Mar a Lago.[/quote]

Seriously.  It's really disheartening to read this thread as a black parent.  Not surprising, but disheartening.  I'm glad to see not everyone here thinks like this.

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Another black parent here, disappointed too but not surprised. I feel most white parents aren’t comfortable with their children being one or few white children beyond early childhood classes. Despite a diversity push, this area and its schools are very segregated. What is a safe racial balance for everyone to be happy, safe and adequately educated?[/quote]

It's more that the absence of white (or Asian or South Asian) kids correlates tightly with long-term school quality.  Higher-income AA participation is an even more sensitive indicator, in my experience.  In the absence of a quality middle school, folks who can transport their kids to something else just aren't going to stick around.  We are trying to make it work at our EOTP elementary, and the school has some great things going for it, but I can see the writing on the wall even in PK4.  Everyone is bailing because of middle school.

If a school had high-performing kids and a good middle school, I would be there regardless of the racial composition.  But that doesn't seem to happen in DC.[/quote]

For the last time this is not about race its about SES. Since DCPS is over 80% low SES there is no optimal solution.  The best you can hope for is protecting high SES nieghborhood elementary schools and working towards protecting getting to a decent chunk of highers SES in a pyramid via Wilson.  I agree the middle school issue is a problem and thats for everyone not just high SES.  For the middle school issue you need more application/magnet middle schools.

And to summerize it all why aren't more higher SES AA kids going to Banneker.   Its SES not Race[/quote]

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