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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Well I am bucking the trend and moving my 4th grader from private to our EotP elementary. We are looking forward to it![/quote]

I don’t care about racial diversity but I do care about SES mixing. I am not onboard with thinking it is a basic value add to middle and upper class kids. Just as I no more mix with the janitorial or mail room staff what do my kids gain from having a surge of kids looking for handouts populate their school? Truth is poverty is contagious and I would hate for my kids to pick up habits, vernacular or standards from kids with lower expectations out of life. The top is already hard enough.

I get why putting poor kids in a rich school helps them just as dropping a homeless person in a rich restaurant will most often result in them getting a good meal, a little bit of rich guilt placation and general push back out the door. Thing is there are way too many poor people to feed and if it becomes a habit the rich will stop coming. There simply has to be havens for higher SES kids be they public and private. If one gets brkoen up  another will emerge because the best part of being rich is options.

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I am not sure why you posting this? If you have a fear of poor people then send your kids to private. I grew up poor but am not anymore so I am not sure what you’re trying to argue.[/quote]

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