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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think you are reacting emotionally and defensively and if you take a few days to process this and calm down, you may see that the report has many good points.

Basically, many white gentrifiers don’t want their kids going to the public schools in the neighborhood they moved into and boards like this help them figure out how to send their kids to “better,” typically whiter and less economically diverse non neighborhood schools. That’s pretty obvious. [/quote]

The report have good points (I don't know the DC schools well enough to comment, I am not in DC, although I think issues of "nice white parents" warrant a lot of discussion). However, it is irresponsible to use sloppy methodology to jump to those points. In other words, this is an opinion piece dressed up in a veneer of science, but that veneer is fairly obviously weak. If Brookings had written a pure opinion piece, I think the reaction would be different. But doing word count analysis without controlling for textual context? I wouldn't let a high schooler get away with that, let alone Brookings.[/quote]

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