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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is actually the key point, near the end:

“Not coincidentally, white Democrats are significantly less supportive than Black Democrats when it comes to major school integration policies, such as busing, or policies that give students access to public schools other than those their families can afford to purchase through the housing market.
D.C. isn’t unique. In almost every American community, white, middle-class progressives are unreliable allies when it comes to building affordable or public housing that might make their neighborhood schools more accessible to a wider range of diverse families.”

It’s not simply that white families choose to live in mostly white neighborhoods with mostly white schools. It’s that we actively resist any efforts to change those patterns, by opposing increased access to these schools to non-white and less affluent families.

Consider the loud, angry resistance to the Ward 3 homeless shelter by people in Cleveland Park who insisted it was going overburden Eaton ES. Think about the current negative reaction in CCDC to the idea of increasing affordable housing and density in the Connecticut Ave. corridor. Think about the complaints about out-of-boundary students whenever there’s a conversation about overcrowding at Ward 3 schools. Consider how angry parents of Walls applicants are this year because changes in the admissions process resulted in some kids they believed to be the “most deserving” not getting in.

White families don’t just avoid attending non-white schools; we hoard resources and opportunity at the mostly white schools that we do attend. [/quote]

Except you forgot the entire DC charter sector, which is supported by many white parents.

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