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[quote=Anonymous]To 16:49.  I do not dispute that they were neighborhood schools.  I believe I stated that they were neighborhood schools that were essentially abandoned by the people who lived in the neighborhoods.  To elaborate, the people in those neighborhoods preferred to send their children to private school rather than the neighborhood school.  My point in mentioning the OOB process was to point out that rather than work to fully integrate the city so that AAs/Blacks were reintroduced to areas of the city that they had previously been shut out of, thereby creating a situation where there would be diversity in every neighborhood,  the city ignored the issue. This brings us full circle to today where we are wringing our hands over the boundary issue.

As for what I meant by economic segregation, I was trying to explain the continued push of the upper middle class citizens to neighborhoods that have been historically populated by middle class AAs/Blacks, which  thereby raising the costs to move into the neighborhoods to such a level that AAs/Blacks can no longer afford these neighborhoods and have to move neighborhoods that generally have a poorer population.  For example I grew up in Petworth, and at this point, I could not afford to buy in Petworth and if I wanted to continue to live in DC, I would most likely move to Wards 7 and 8.   More than likely, I would probably move out of the city.  So the landscape becomes the uber wealthy concentrate in Spring Valley, Gtown, Cleveland Park, Chevy Chase (Ward 3), the upper middle class are in Wards 4, 5,6, and the poor are concentrated to Wards 7 and 8 because the cost to move back across the River or across the Park is too high.[/quote]

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