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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Unfortunately, the article came across to me as the ES was saved once it was mostly white.

Any school can be approved if enough resources and attention are invested. The attendees’ race is irrelevant, unless that is what is determining what resources and attention are available for improving that school.[/quote]

Agreed. This is what rubbed me the wrong way also. I am Indian American and my kids half white. They go to a majority black and Hispanic school. One got into an extremely sought after dcps and switched in 4. Top of her class. The first school prepared her extremely well, and she observed that the kids in school 1 worked harder. It was more rigorous, more homework, higher expectations from teachers on behavior as well as homework. How much longer do we go before we realize skin color does not equate to potential or intelligence? I’m dismayed that s progressive type like wheedon is struggling with this still. Hypocrisy— that is the name of this story. His daughter is the clear thinking one.

By the way, my parents didn’t care when I was the only Asian in my class. Nor did they care about that when they came to this country for graduate school. They (unlike some others of my background) did not flinch st all when I sent my kids to a title 1 school. They observed as I did, that the teaching and the students were good, and that my kids loved school and had made good friends. Kids will show us the way.[/quote]

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