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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Engaged is a perfectly fine word.  But when the question posed is a question about demographics, and the response is "there were many engaged parents," one has to wonder what "engaged" means in this context, particularly since it is a known code word in DCUM for white.  If you want to answer a posting about demographics, why use the word engaged unless you are trying to be PC?[/quote]

Engaged means engaged. Period.

The word I object to is "parents" -- everyone knows that is code for whites.[/quote]

Ridiculous.  Parents is code for nothing.

Most of the high SES white parents I know seem aware that the nature of poverty in this country in this century is such that being an "engaged" public school parent generally takes free time, spare energy and, in the case of OOB or charter attendance, transportation support that most low-income minority parents lack.

Most high SES parents with kids in public school are in fact white, but certainly not all.  You're painting with too broad a brush.  The local parents I talk to, and I've lived a mile from Van Ness for the better part of two decades, are, for the most part, more thoughtful, inclusive and reasonable in their orientation than those you describe, PP.

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