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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]School segregation is not good.

In an ideal world, our neighborhoods and schools would be naturally diverse, with a mix of housing types and a population with a mix of income levels. This is true in some parts of D.C. -- there are neighborhoods and schools with natural diversity. Maybe that's the one situation where you can find white people who don't feel guilty about their choices.

School segregation is inextricably tied up with housing segregation.

Housing segregation has long-standing racist roots (redling, racially restrictive covenants). The segregation continues bc
 people see that the schools in some areas are "better" and then move there and the schools get even better and the problem compounds.

At the root, we need to eliminate single-family zoning. Then this whole conversation will feel less insane and unsolvable.[/quote]

Ha. White people in what are considered to be Historically Black neighborhoods are berated about their choices all the time. What DC (not VA or MD) neighborhoods are this Kumbaya land of racial harmony?

Redlining, existed. Racial covenants, existed. But don't anymore. Bloomingdale was one of those neighborhoods and at one point is was almost all Black, pre-gentrification. Just because a neighborhood had those things didn't mean that it kept out Black people forever amen. LeDroit Park was another such neighborhood, built for whites, then it became black.

I also fail to see how changing the zoning make the schools more integrated or better or anything. Childless roommates populate the new apartment buildings. I live in a townhouse and being surrounded by childless 20 and 30-somethings who go out at night & come back loudly or worse throw a party, and stomp around like drunken elephants, and I hear them. After a while, especially now, it gets on your nerves. My only revenge is my DS who decides that 6:30 AM is a great time to bang on the walls and turn on the loudest toy some evil relative gave us.

Maybe better school zones have quieter neighbors and in a SFH I don't have to try to keep my kid from being a loud, funny, stomping, goofy kid because the lady downstairs has complained several times already about the noise.[/quote]

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