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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Parent of white kids in the Deal/Wilson feeder pattern here: I don't have a problem with this language. It's a little clumsy, obviously, but I'm fine with the goal of diverse schools.[/quote]

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If you want to promote equity, you discuss the positives - seats for OOB, at risk preferences, benefits for those populations, etc. 
You don’t talk about an entire ethnicity as if it’s a “problem” to be solved. This isn’t clumsy; it’s hostile.[/quote]

So now, what, we're going to be all up in arms about whatever proposal they make because of some dumb language in a PowerPoint? I don't think it's hostile, anyway.[/quote]

Substitute black for white here and you’d be all over this. Hypocrite. [/quote]

Gee, can you think of any reasons why, in a majority-white country that allowed black people to be owned and sold as property for hundreds of years and still has massive race-driven structural inequities in place, it would seem worse to talk about growth of a minority black population in schools as a problem than it is to talk about the opposite of that? If not, perhaps you should talk to whoever ran the history classes in whatever school district [i]you[/i] attended for high school.[/quote]

DCPS is not minority Black.

The solution to racism is not racism.  You know, two wrongs don’t make a right....[/quote]

Of course DCPS is not minority Black, but DCPS doesn't exist in a vacuum, it's a school district in a country that's 13 percent Black -- so no matter what the demographics of the city are, it's obviously more fraught to see an increased Black population in the handful of already-majority-White schools in the city as a problem than it is to see an increased White population in those schools as a problem. [/quote]

But DCPS does exist in a vacuum when it comes to its student population and the levers it has control over.  If DCPS’s best solution for providing quality education is sending OOB kids to upper NW schools, then it’s got a serious problem, because it’s got too much of one ingredient and too little of the other to make that recipe go very far.[/quote]

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