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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Of all the work DCPS need to do, integrating Banneker doesn’t make the top 400.  It’s a high-performing ~all-black school. DC needs more of those, not less. [/quote]

Good lord, this. [/quote]

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Work on integrating white enclaves. [/quote]

What a convenient double standard. And it has the dubious bonus of being unaware of its inherent endogeneity. Well done.[/quote]

While the obliviousness of the PP is true, the mechanisms that keep the homogeneous nature of the enclaves are not equal. White enclaves have a wall of wealth that as a whole, AA simply can’t qualify for. Banneker is black simply because it is black. The gov is the only thing that can make a dent in wealth segregation and if they did that I suspect DC parents might relook at a school full of high achieving kids if there was no where left to hide form the poverty that pockets the city. If the gov stepped in and messed with Banneker it would be simply because some parents want to mess with the one decent HS option available to motivated black students that can’t make the monetary climb out of the poorer sections of the city. That seems petty to this white guy

There should be a grade weighting to the lottery and there should be set aside sections in every school. There should be scholarship incentivization provided from the college tuition program from graduates of lower ranked high schools. Let the A students basically pick where they go and if they pick targeted schools give them more college money than the graduates of Wilson for example. I suspect you will see white students chase the money and enrichment all around. You can rig the levels on the college assistance and GPA required for certain schools to not only balance populations but enrollments too. It would stand up in court too

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