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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Look, I love the Hill. But the reality is that so many white parents pat themselves on the back and talk loudly at Lincoln Park playground about how committed they are to public schools and to the community...and these same parents are sending their kids to Maury and Brent, and moving or doing private after elemetnary or middle school. No one is sending their kid to Eastern. You don't get an award for being white and living in a city but only associating with white people. [/quote]

And I'm a black parent who decamped from our low-performing in-bound school for a charter, would never think of sending my kids to Eastern, and will likely go private from middle school onward. Is there any problem with that? Or are such choices only a problem when white folks do it. [/quote]

Ahhhhh….thank you. White parents come up for so much abuse when they make precisely the same school choices that black parents do ( in fact whatever school choice they make vis-à-vis race: choose a school that is 60% white and you are racist, choose a school that is 20% white and you are some kind of nice-white-parent gentrified.  I swear I’m not whining about it, but it’s a definite phenomenon.[/quote]

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