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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Parent of white kids in the Deal/Wilson feeder pattern here: I don't have a problem with this language. It's a little clumsy, obviously, but I'm fine with the goal of diverse schools.[/quote]

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If you want to promote equity, you discuss the positives - seats for OOB, at risk preferences, benefits for those populations, etc. 
You don’t talk about an entire ethnicity as if it’s a “problem” to be solved. This isn’t clumsy; it’s hostile.[/quote]

So now, what, we're going to be all up in arms about whatever proposal they make because of some dumb language in a PowerPoint? I don't think it's hostile, anyway.[/quote]

Substitute black for white here and you’d be all over this. Hypocrite. [/quote]

Gee, can you think of any reasons why, in a majority-white country that allowed black people to be owned and sold as property for hundreds of years and still has massive race-driven structural inequities in place, it would seem worse to talk about growth of a minority black population in schools as a problem than it is to talk about the opposite of that? If not, perhaps you should talk to whoever ran the history classes in whatever school district [i]you[/i] attended for high school.[/quote]

Most people who work hard, and make tons of money, and live in NW, and send they’re kids to public schools, which in of itself is a good thing, don’t have the time to worry if their every step is focused on countering the “centering of whiteness” or to dismantle the horrifying legacy of slavery, the hangover of which permeates so many facets of Black existence in America today.

The simple matter of the fact is if DC public schools keeps up, or if social pressure from wokeness causes pressure to enact policies like ending AP classes, or lowers testing standards, or placing low performing cohorts with high performing cohorts in class room settings, which causes the high performing cohorts to retrogress academically, then wealthy parents, who are open minded enough to willingly put their children in the DCPS system to begin with, will simply pull them out and put them in private schools. This scenario will see the quality of dc public schools fall across the board. No one has time for their kids to be social experiments. America is too fast paced. There is too much pressure and no has time for this sht. That’s not racist. Normal people just want their kids to get into good schools and learn to read and write at level. There is no simple fix to any of this. I am just laying out the facts. We are in a time of racial reckoning and that is fantastic. Police reform would be great. School reform would be great as long as educational vigor is maintained.[/quote]

Social experiment?! You think having your white child attend schools with black students is a social experiment?! You are insane. These are children and families who want the same things as you. Get outside of your toxic bubble dude.[/quote]

Do you even reading comprehension, brah?

Not integration. That is not the problem. The problem is penalizing advanced students OF ANY RACE by eradicating advanced placement classes in a social experiment. America doesn’t need meh students. It’s needs great students. You don’t have to mix students who are at proficient at a grade level with kids who are performing above a grade level in some socialistic attempt at equity. It’s not good for anyone.[/quote]

The delusion that so many hold of the supremely gifted white child is absurd. No one is penalized. It isn’t a zero sum game. Plus we are talking education not economics so why trot socialism into the discussion? You sound like Fox News/Republican talking points. This discussion was on feeder patterns, not the Wilson AP for all covered in another thread.[/quote]

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