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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If we were rich, we would live near and use the privates in upper NW. Just because we are white and educated does not mean we are rich.[/quote]

+100.  Pulling in a respectable government salary hardly makes one rich.  [/quote]

It makes you very privileged compared to the families with which you share public institutions in gentrified areas (schools, streets, etc). [/quote]

Hardly. The average home price in my school district is more than 800K. Our school's FARMs rate is less than 10%, and dropping year on year. The families with which I share public institutions generally seem to make more than we do, and we make six figures combined.  The fact is, some neighborhoods in NE and SE DC are no longer gentrifying: they are gentrified. Patience for socially engineered solutions in DC public schools is at an all time low in such neighborhoods.

As a person of color who graduated from a middle/high school (Boston Latin) where the student body was around 8% AA in a city where the public school population was at least 1/3 AA, I'm enormously grateful that political bleeding hearts didn't rule the day in setting admissions policies governing my city's several "exam schools." Most of my AA classmates went on to Ivies, blue chip liberal arts colleges, top engineering programs, the military academies etc.  My 300 year-old alma mater generally dispatched more graduates to each Ivy every year than any other school in the country (public or private), and still does. 
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