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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maybe the issue is the word whitening. I’ve never heard that and it does sound hostile or just offensive even if trie. You’d never be caught dead saying blackening that’s for sure.[/quote]

Right — concentration of white students would have been less awkward  [/quote]

But the problem isn’t the white students (who are IB and just following the rules and attending thei IB schools.) The problem is that black kids’ IB schools are failing. [/quote]

This is it exactly.

This "problem" is the result of DCPS completely abdicating its responsibility to work to improve schools for kids all over the city.  Instead of putting in the work, it was just much more expedient, and easier, to send kids of color from across the city to Wilson and it's feeders, which were perceived as "good" schools already, and adding feeder rights on top of it.  This is the inevitable result.  But since there isn't a cadre of strong schools Quite obviously, those schools across the city, DCPS is left with no choice but to try to preserve what OOB access they can.

The result, of course, is more and more poor kids have to trek across the city to go to school.  It's idiotic.  [/quote]
This is it, and it's really sad. It's worse than a bandaid because it takes powerful voices out of the communities that need help (those families that have the means to get their kids across town), allows affluent families to ignore the housing segregation that is so prevalent, instead patting themselves on the back for sending their own kids to diverse schools, and pools resources in the place that already has the most. If this were part of a broader plan that would actually address segregation in the schools, the language would be fine. But it's not. [/quote]

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