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[quote=Anonymous]Private schools in the DC area for sure don't have the economic diversity as many public schools, but it always seems a little silly when people try and act like private or public schools are a monolith. The DC public school we are zoned to is 11% Black, and our private school is 15% Black. While I admit there are likely more children who qualify for free lunch at our zoned school, I'm not sure that it's as economically diverse as our private school either even If we don't have any families that would qualify for free lunch. One difference is that at least a few times a year there is a shooting or stabbing on the street out front of the school (the high school is across the street) in our DC zoned public. That isn't happening at our private. So while parents who are sending their kids to Walt Whitman, where they have about 4% Black students and most of the houses within boundary are in the millions, it's a tad absurd to think diversity is the reason. I will happily keep sending my Black kids to a school where they aren't one of the only Black kids and where I don't have to worry about lockdowns when the high school next door pops off. [/quote]

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