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[quote=Anonymous]I'm like you Petworth parent. I'm in 16th Street Heights. And I think I've noticed over the 10 years I've read this site that there are way more like us who are willing to choose the schools, particularly neighborhood schools, even when they don't have good test scores, even when they are 80% Hispanic or 90% Black. And some of these people are in elementary school yes, but the conventional wisdom of DCUM that this virtuous BS ends in middle schools and high schools is being given the lie.  To be honest, I think it's surging up from elementary school with what I think is basically a gentrifier baby boom, but it's changing our city. I really see 10 years from now a significantly more integrated DCPS, particularly in Wards 1, 4, and 5 (and more in Ward 6). Things we haven't seen yet happening, e.g., proportionate numbers of white graduates from Roosevelt, MacFarland, Coolidge, Brookland, McKinley, Eastern.

I really think this is happening, and to whatever extent we can hasten it, I'm happy for that. To me, that's promoting the normalcy of these choices by making them myself.  (The other, which others may not endorse, is not supporting expansion of that peculiar set of gentrifier-endorsed "HRCS" charters to allow parents the easy choice of self-segregation.)[/quote]

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