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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What happens to the allure of the W schools if the current students are no longer there?  Are they still perceived as better if the majority are bussed in from other areas and the IB residents choose private instead?  What happens when parent involvement declines because the IB parents are no longer involved and the current student body parents can't be involved because of things like work, lack of transportation, or any of the other current reasons that they are are currently not involved in their local school?[/quote]

Have you listened to the TAL podcast on school segregation?  It's called "The Problem We All Live With" and is about how desegregation is the ONLY thing that has ever worked for bridging the achievement gap.  The interesting thing is that it works without bringing down the scores or educational experiences of schools that were formerly overwhelmingly white.

Basically, there's scads of evidence that desegregation doesn't hurt white and Asian students, but does help Black and Latinx students, so the only reason that "W parents" would pull their kids would be racism.  [/quote]

+1 In the end, it's a slightly more sophisticated version of racism, maybe more like classism (just so happens, not by accident, that the majority of poor people in urban areas are POC), but that makes it all the more insidious.

I'm not a MD resident any longer, but I'm in Arlington and I think we're moving in this direction (gradually, like an iceberg). If MoCo, Arlington, and Fairfax all undertook efforts at desegregation simultaneously, do we really think everyone would flee to the exurbs? I don't. Traffic and Metro suck. And there aren't enough jobs that are 100% remote for a large enough percentage of the population to be able to leave, thereby destabilizing the regional housing market. Also, I think there are enough of us higher SES (white) parents who won't engage in the "white flight" reaction that our parents did. There's too much evidence that suggests we'll all be better off in desegregated school systems. [/quote]

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