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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think most white parents fear poor minorities, like it is contagious. Studies have shown that wealthy white students do no worse with poor minorities peers or rich white peers. The difference is poor minority students improve with more diversity. In MS and HS white parents worry about their kids getting beat up by poor minorities but I feel like this fear would be resolved if we weren’t so segregated as a society. (If they actually knew some black teenagers and families.)[/quote]

I think it offers little comfort for parents when studies show their kids will "do not worse" than their white peers.  There are Type A parents all over DC.  They don't want to settle for not doing worse than their peers.  They want specialized attention and give their kids a leg up.  These parents view charter schools with language immersion, Montessori, and other special programs as offering the extra that they think their kids need to move ahead.  The only way that DCPS is going to compete with charter schools is if they too offer something (anything) that can be viewed as giving kids an advantage.  [/quote]

But those kids do not do any better in all white schools. There is NO leg up! [/quote]

Are you going to tell me that a kid with a performing arts bent is not going to benefit from going to a performing arts focused school? Or that a family who wants Chinese immersion is not getting a leg up in a foreign language?  When their neighborhood school does not make such offerings?  Or a math and science wiz is not going to have more opportunities at a STEM school?  Is that what you are telling me?[/quote]

No, the studies show that wealthy white kids have the same learning outcomes regardless of peer cohort.[/quote]

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