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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]You want a bunch of upper SES white people to stay so your schools looks like the schools that you decry. [/b]You want your cake and eat it too and you’re bitter others aren’t playing their part in your fantasy. They moved because that is where what they want is. You want what you want to come to you. [/quote]

OP will never admit this, because it doesn't comport with her view of herself, but this is exactly right.  [/quote]

Ding  ding  ding! We have a winner! I'm mad because you took your rich white child away and now my kid is left with the poor brown ones. No fair![/quote]

This is a version of a common flawed argument on DCUM that goes: “I’M not racist... EVERYBODY thinks this way.” When they feel some guilt, people comfort themselves by believing that everyone else secretly harbors the same thoughts they do.

No, not everyone wants their schools to be majority white and wealthy. There are so many other reasons why the OP would be annoyed to see her friends go. The main one is that white flight is disappointing and depressing. [/quote]

Sure, there could be any number of reasons.  Or, we could just point to the one OP said in her post:  "We are committed to sticking it out and bringing about the change the other families feel didn’t come fast enough on the Hill but I can’t help but feel that they are abandoning the community and us to the point they are part of the problem with the middle schools."

The other families didn't stick around to help improve the schools.  [/quote]

You're saying the same thing as PP.[/quote]

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