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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The good charters are the only schools that reflect the demographics of the city.  The neighborhood schools are violently segregated.  [/quote]

The segregated ones tend to be either far NE/SE, are headed by near-criminals for profit, or are solid schools (KIPP) but their teaching methods are not loved my a large majority of white families.

I almost feel like I have to add that I am AA.[/quote]

I think my white kid would have thrived at KIPP-- but when I toured the school I definitely got the impression that my white upper middle class kid would not be welcome by the school administrators.  I got the impression my kid's attendance would mess up their narrative for fundraising.  And it is tough to get into, so, yes, he would have had a shot at "taking the slot" of a kid that could have benefitted more from KIPP than he would have.  So we didn't even apply.  He is at Washington Latin instead-- a school with a minority population of whites--- and yet still subject to criticisms by some jackasses as suspiciously white..

If we hadn't gotten in either Latin (or BASIS), we would have gone with private.      [/quote]

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