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Sure they are. Look at diversity in other citywide programs. Like Logan. Same neighborhood, 54% AA, 35% white. No citywide charter has managed to be so white. Maybe sibling preference explains a lot, but they should be knocking themselves out trying to recruit a wider mix of kids.[/quote]

GUFFAW -- reverse the dynamics of that statement there and apply it to Miner, Payne, Burroughs, Eliot Hine, any of the 99% AA schools in this city.  "Those black schools should be knocking themselves out trying to recruit some white kids!"  There are literally 10 new spots a year at this school and everyone is wringing their hands about them.  Practically every young kid local to the hill is white.  Get off it.

Now, the hiring of teachers, yes I agree that's different and controllable, and very possibly an area for valid concern. But again OP, help me out with understanding what you're going to do with a blurb from an AA family that comes on here (BTW they're busy, I doubt they're even here, and you should know that they have both the brains and the balls to have this conversation for themselves) and says "Yes, we feel discriminated against and I've just been too afraid to mention it, thank God you've given me a venue here!"  THEN you're going to take it up with the school?  Or is this entire thread an easy way for you to assuage your own doubts and icky liberal tingles?  "There, I've DONE something, I posted it on DCUM!"[/quote]

Using Miner and Payne, etc, is a false equivalent, and you know it. Some of those schools HAVE tried hard to attract and retain white neighbors, with mixed results. Even though there are growing numbers of white children in DC, they are concentrated in a handful of DCPS and a small number of popular charters.

And there are plenty of motivated AA families in DC who knock themselves out to get their kids to better schools, whether they are charters or WOTP DCPS that have had historically had OOB seats. IF they're not applying to SWS, then why not? What does it hurt to take a good look at the program and see if it could be made more appealing to these families?[/quote]

Weren't there literally 1 or 2 nonsibling seats available for PS3 this year?  I am not sure that the current demographics of the school tells you much about the demographics of those applying.  They are just largely self replicating, at least for the moment.[/quote]

I totally agree. But you have to admit--admissions that are almost exclusively white siblings, very few non-white teachers, hiring white parents as teachers, and a principal who SEEMS not to care--the optics are not the best.[/quote]

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