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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We have a kid in PK4 at Van Ness.  We saw a lot of engaged parents at Back To School night.   About half of the kids are in bound, other half are out of bound.  My thinking is that the school is not a Title I school.[/quote]

that is a loaded statement. By engaged you mean white?  and thats how you know its not title 1?  [/quote]

Why would you assume engaged means white? Back to School night had many parents of different races.  [/quote]

NP.  Why use the term "engaged" in a thread asking about demographics?[/quote]

Who cares? If it's that important to stay on topic (a first for this board) then the thread should have ended at the under age 5 response because that's all that be confirmed at this point.  [/quote]

NP.  I'll admit that I do. I don't want my kid at a school where they are an "only".  Only white kid, only black kid, only non-FARMS or non-trust fund kid, only native English speaker or non-native English speaker, etc. OP's mistake was dancing around the issue instead of asking it straight out: "Did there appear to be a even distribution of black, white, latino, low income, high income, etc.?"  Yes, some close minded people associate income with race, some people assess that based on the manner of dress, the manner in which people interact and interact with their kids, etc.  The fact that some people are closed minded bigots doesn't make the everyone who asks a closed minded bigot.  [/quote]

Your assertion that some closed minded people associate income with race confirms that you're hopelessly out of touch.  Every discussion of Van Ness eventually devolves into the correlation between the two in DC.  Correct me if I'm wrong, but where are the large numbers of poor white families living in-bound for Van Ness.  OP opened the door for the umpteenth time by inquiring about "demographics."  It's tried and true dog whistle terminology.  Again, if you're asking about demographics youbhave more than a passing familiarity with the economic disparities between families living east of S. Capitol (mostly white) and families living west of S. Capitol (mostly black).  Spare us the piety.[/quote]

You are missing my point (and that made by others).  But that says a great deal about you, not us.  We're not pious.  We're honest.  We care about racial makeup as we don't want to be an only one.  I also care about SES diversity.  And that doesn't necessarily track with race.  The fact that YOU think it does says something about you, not me.  I'm guessing your faux liberalism can't grasp that concept - that's ok, you're forgiven (THAT's piety my friend, ironic and sarcastic as it may be).  And you actually don't know much about the area around Van Ness if you think the areas "East of S Cap" are predominantly black.  There's almost no original housing stock there.  Its all new townhouses and mixed use and condos.  The townhouses sell for a million bucks on the open market, and some percentage were reserved for low income and can't be sold above some capped rate.  But there's no original housing stock...unless someone is camping out in Nat's Park.  And the sample size at Van Ness is too small to extrapolate broader stats from DC.  If I used my HRCS as a model for the broader population then 25% of all black women would be corporate lawyers.

But let me be clear: My liberalism isn't faux, it's real, it's sincere and I don't apologize for it.  I see color.  I see SES.  I see differences.  To pretend like those things don't exist, or to conflate the concepts and pretend like you're just taking the position of bigots exposes you as a faux liberal.  [/quote]

Faux liberalism?  Really?  Why would anyone with a brain be a self-professed "liberal" in the first place?  It's equivalent to announcing that you can't do math.  [i]Pretending[/i] to be a liberal is beyond stupid, unless it is some sort of deep cover.[/quote]

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