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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How many African-American or Hispanic students are there at Langley?  [/quote]

Is that seriously your only benchmark for diversity?  There are kids from probably every nation who attend Langley.  I'd call that diversity.  [/quote]

np here. this is what bothers me about calls for diversity. We really should define it based on SES diversity and stop fixating on skin color. [/quote]

Regardless of how you get there, a truly diverse school will have more than token representation from the two largest minority groups in the US.  And yes, SES diversity is important as well.  [/quote]

Maybe to you, but the fact is that people pay a premium to live in the school districts with the highest test scores and top ratings, regardless of whether they happen to tick off your diversity criteria.[/quote]

Wow.  You mean some people pay extra money just to make sure their kids are completely and totally sequestered from poor brown kids??  Shocking!  I had no idea!![/quote]

No, they just pay for good schools and don't fret about some arbitrary "diversity" quotas.  Your post assumes schools with poor brown kids are bad, which may often be the case, but it suggests that perhaps you're not quite as enlightened as you like to think you are.  Perhaps you have some regrets about where you bought, and trotting out the diversity card makes you feel better.[/quote]

Actually it is you who made the leap that lower test scores automatically = "bad" schools.  It has been well-established that test scores are a proxy for SES, and that a disproportionate share of poor kids in the DC area are brown or black.[/quote]

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