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[quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Which out-of-date stats?  Banneker is now 2% white?

Whatever, the school is behind the times and needs to change.[/quote]

Not a huge difference, but the most recent data is 3%. I point that out because if someone called me out for using incorrect data I might at least double check my references. It's here if you want to see it. https://www.myschooldc.org/schools/profile/9/[/quote]

So Banneker is a little more than 70% black, a little more than 20% Latino, around 3% white. Translation: [b]nowhere near diverse enough for most high[/b] SES DC parents of all races. Whatever its merits, Banneker feels seriously irrelevant to this[b] Asian parent[/b], a school that belongs in a bygone era, my immigrant parents' time.[/quote]

But something tells me if the school was 70% white you'd be ok with that. [/quote]

No, I'd much rather send my kid to a school that was far more ethically/culturally diverse.[/quote]

Pfffth. Literally no poster has ever opted out of Janney to attend a more diverse school. You are full of it.[/quote]

I actually know a family that lived in bounds for Janney that choose a more diverse charter school instead. I don't know how much the added diversity entered into their calculus, but I suspect that it played a role.
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