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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think it is quite a stretch to say that "white people don't want" integration when Deal and Wilson are the most integrated schools in the city.  Clearly, white folks like those schools. But there aren't enough white students left over to meaningfully integrate at many other public schools than those. Basis charter, I guess, but it is pretty well integrated too; Hardy seems to be attracting more white folks recently.  Unless everyone's REAL concern is that a small cadre of elementary schools located in Upper Caucasia (where all the white people live) have a majority of white students in those schools.  If that's what is troubling you, then your problem is not really policy, but something more fundamental to your world-view.[/quote]

The new racial and economic intergration report that came out yesterday also found that an equal number of white families in Ward 3 are opting out of public schools entirely, as are opting in. For hte purposes of Wilson and its feeders and overcrowding, that's probably a good thing, but it also significantly limits the amount of racial or economic balance we can hope to achieve (just 10% of the entire DC public and charter school student population is white).

The data also showed that in 16-17 Wilson was the most integrated racially, but not an all integrated economically but from the student newspaper and the principal's comments, the number of minority students has dropped significantly in the last 2 years.

The most integrated schools are (in order) below.[b] It seems fair to conclude that housing patterns in DC prevents most DCPS neighborhood schools from being integrated racially unless a school has a history of accepting OOB students[/b] (Hyde, Murch, Eaton) or there is some sort of gerrymandering (e.g. the Gold Coast / Bancroft and longer ago having some parts of SW feed Wilson).

Wilson
Yu Ying 
Mundo Verde
Basis
[b]Seaton[/b]
EW Stokes
DCI
[b]Hearst[/b]
EL Haynes Elementary
Breakthrough Montessori
[b]SWW high schoo[/b]l
CMI
Washington Latin MS
[b]Hyde Addison[/b]
Inspired Teaching
[b]Ross[/b]
Shining Stars
[b]Deal[/b]
LAMB
[b]Eaton[/b]
Cap City Lower
Cap City Middle
Center City Petworth
EL Haynes HS
[b]Barnard
Van Ness[/b]
EL Haynes MS
[b]SWW @ FS[/b]
Appletree Lincoln Park
Center City Brightwood
Washington Latin HS
Appletree CH
[b]Thomson
LaSalle Backus[/b]
Bridges
[b]Garrison
Tubman
West[/b]
[b]Hardy
Roosevelt[/b]
Cap City HS
[b]Cardozo
Maury[/b]
Center City Shaw
[b]Peabody[/b]
[b]Ludlow Taylor
Cooke[/b]
Two Rivers
[b]Murch[/b]
[b]Takoma
Oyster Adams
[/b]
[b]CHML
Cleveland[/b]
[/quote]

Really?  I draw the opposite conclusion. Most of the DCPS schools in the "most integrated" list are those where GENTRIFICATION has INCREASED diversity by bringing new white families to the schools.  What's crazy is how quickly the diversity can flip the other way, to all/majority white.  So housing patterns seem to at least at one stage increase diversity, not decrease it. [/quote]

+1.

It's pretty obvious that in DC gentrification has primarily INCREASED racial and socioeconomic diversity.[/quote]

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