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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"I just wish all would have that attitude and let the diversity initiative start with the first step. The diversity of a school should come naturally and not this illusion of if, it's all black and therefore it is destined for all things bad and evil."

The thing is, reverse racism (black racism against whites) is alive and well in this city.  It has been a majority black city for a long time, after all.  And making the city less segregated goes both ways, and we haven't made much progress.  [b]So, I'm not going to send my kid into a potentially difficult, exclusionary environment unless there is a good reason.[/b]  For me, that probably needs to be a school with truly competitive admissions, which doesn't exist in D.C.  [/quote]I understand your concern. I wouldn't want to send my kid into an "exclusionary" environment either.  But what I am challenging you on is whether you would investigate a school, visit it, talk to parents and administrators to find out what the environment actually is before making that decision or would you just assume without actually checking out the facts that a school that is heavily AA is exclusionary towards whites?

That's what bothers me about some parents - in this case, white parents who won't consider good schools which are heavily AA - is that they make assumptions without actually finding out for themselves what a school is like.[/quote]

That goes both ways, with some AA parents here making the same sorts of assumptions and accusations about what they perceive to be "white" schools without actually consulting the facts.[/quote]

This is bullshit.  Give me one example of this.  I went to a lily white school and I wish that my parents had not sent me.  Being called a nigger - and people finding that acceptable - was no fun at all.[/quote]

Maybe relevant decades ago, somewhere else.

There are no "lily white" DCPS or PCS schools in the District now.  [/quote]

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