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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Fox News picked up the story. https://www.foxnews.com/media/plan-blend-predominantly-black-white-dc-schools-tense-debate-liberal-neighborhood

Their take is funny. It’s basically “liberals are hypocrites”.[/quote]

I don’t doubt it. This particular case may be different but as Nikole Hannah Jones has pointed out, “blue” areas have some of the highest segregation in schools and (fairly well-off, white) liberal parents ALWAYS find 1,000 reasons to oppose plans to make schools less white/reflect area demographics whenever they are proposed.[/quote]

Quoting a known liar and fabricator won’t help your cause.[/quote]

It’s not my cause, which is why it’s all so amusing to me. I live in a blue area that had a “boundary scare” in the last few years. 
So liberal! So progressive! So agitated when faced with the possibility that their “good schools” were in danger of lower test scores, reduced safety and smaller pool of compatible peers.
They all talk a good game about diversity, inclusion and equity… right up until it could affect them. Then they hop right over with the people talking that neighborhood school, success-starts-at-home talk.
It never fails and it’s funny every time.[/quote]

Well that’s not actually what’s happening with Maury. Many of us send our older kids to Eliot-Hine. And of course Maury is more geniunely diverse than most elementary schools in the whole country.

The bigger hypocrites IMO are in the Mayor’s office - wringing their hands about poor Miner! Well we control the schools but there is NOTHING we can do directly except kick up dirt to make it seem the fault of white Maury parents! Whatever shall we do. [/quote]

Thank you for bringing up another verse of this much-played song:  The finger-pointing by the people charged with running the schools/city/institution. Just call everyone racist as your policies fail time and time again. 
Folks are indignant when directed at them and can clearly see how the story is being spun, facts be damned.  And a few weeks later will agree when the charge is leveled at some other convenient target during some other hubbub, never stopping to think that it could be unjustified.[/quote]

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