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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Agree with the posters who say it's about SES, not race (although I wouldn't want my kid to be the only white in his class, either).  Let me explain.

I work for the World Bank, arguably the most diverse employer in Washington, DC and possibly in the US.  We are all colors, all languages, all ethnicities.  We are very diverse.

And yet we are very not. Because regardless of color or national origin, we share the following characteristics: everyone has a graduate degree, at least. Everyone speaks 2+ languages. Everyone has traveled to dozens of countries. Everyone has gone to a handful of top universities internationally. Everyone is highly literate.  Most people come from solid families that cared about education.  Many come from their country elites.

So our kids get along very well regardless of their color.  And I wouldn't feel comfortable putting my mixed-race son into a classroom of kids from poor, uneducated, untraveled families, no matter what their skin color is.  At the WB we became completely color-blind, but inferior schooling or manner of speaking or insufficient worldliness would make you an outsider just as efficiently as the wrong skin color somewhere else.

And truth be told, we give lip service to diversity, but we want diversity only of a particular kind, especially for our children, because we want them to learn only one kind of normal - highly educated, international and literate. We are OK with them getting exposed to other lifestyles, but only after they learn what normal is.

So the long answer is that it doesn't matter what the majority/minority proportion is, as long as they don't come from poor, uneducated background. As a side note, in DC diversity tends to be framed as Black/White mix, but in real life there are many other shades and colors, so sometimes neither Black nor White are majorities. [/quote]

Very well said.  I think living in DC, sometimes I do become color blind.  I don't notice what color someone is...but I do notice if someone is Ghetto.  Or if someone is poor.  I don't think I would mind if my DD was the only white face in a school full of rich black kids or brown kids or purple kids.  But, mix in the poor kids.....[/quote]

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