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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP. I am a native Washingtonian who in the early 80's traveled from Columbia Heights across Rock Creek Park to attend a quality elementary school and then Deal Jr high school.  Back then there were plenty of spaces since these schools were not in vogue with those who lived in the neighborhood.   It was easier to manage this OOB process than try to deal with the fact that DC in the 1980s remained as segregated (in terms of housing and education) in the 80s as it had been in the 60s.  Fast forward to today, I think DC still does not want to (or does not know how to deal) with fact that DC was never truly integrated and the discriminatory practices employed in the 50s, including redlining and covenants prohibiting sales of Ward 3 homes to African-Americans/Black, were never ameliorated.  Now as a result of this inaction, DC is still [i]de facto [/i]segregated and now thanks to gentrification, economically segregated.

If  the Ward 3 schools become neighborhood schools, essentially a "separate and unequal" school system has been created - with the best public schools being in Ward 3 with great facilities, test scores, innovative classes/course work, teaching staff etc and the other schools across the park with low test scores, inferior facilities and classes, teachers etc .  DC has begun to improve on the physical plants of its East of the Park schools but test scores are still dismal compared to Ward 3 schools.  This is why I think that a legal challenge to any boundary revisions that cuts out diversity in Ward 3 has a chance of success.  The history of racial discrimination in DC is distinguishable from the facts of the PICS and might lead to a different outcome.  I agree with jsteele in that the threat of being branded as the govt that brought back a separate system for elite Whites in Ward 3 vs  AA/Blacks in the  Wards across the park means that diversity at Deal and Wilson will be somehow be retained.    [/quote]

Probably the best remark I've read on DCUB in a LONG time.  +1000[/quote]

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