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[quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]+1

Saying, "well, we aren't segregationists because you aren't telling us what the solution is" is a complete non sequitur.  The solution is really complicated, and involves things beyond what schools parents send their kids to, but it will NEVER happen as long as parents who are participating in and benefiting from the system hear "systemic racism" and immediately bristle because someone is calling them "racist."  Some problems don't have easy solutions, but pretending that they aren't problems because of that doesn't help.

Part of it is that we really need to think HARD about what we think makes a "good school," and the ways that race plays into that.  There are studies about how people's perception of a school's quality declines when the percentage of black students increases, even if things like test scores stay the same.  [/quote]

Nobody has said anything remotely similar to what you are suggesting. I agree completely that, "The solution is really complicated, and involves things beyond what schools parents send their kids". We live in a nation built on racism. Every institution is tarnished by racism. What I have said is that given the options available, parents attempt to make [i]the best choice. [/i][b]That is a normal and natural thing to do. [/b]
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[i]It is treating school as a high-stakes consumer choice, the maximization of which is the only path to success, that is the problem.[/i] When we see school that way, it is normal and natural to try to maximize what we personally get out of it (via our children). But that's not the only way to think about school.

I don't think there is much you can do, as the owner of the site, to affect this. The outcomes here are probably not what you intend. But when you put however-many DC-area professional-managerial class folks into one place to talk about school, anonymously, with no prompts or guidance or shared set of referents other than the systems as they stand, currently, this is what you get. [/quote]

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