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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Except that the choice schools already have more "diversity" than most neighborhood schools. Claremont is just under the title I threshold at 38%. Key is at 41%. Campbell is always at around 55%. Even ATS is at 26%, which is not as much as it needs to be, but respectable. Much more an white parents start to complain.

Sorry, but putting more "diversity" (ATS could use a bit more) will just turn the choice schools into lower performing schools. Campbell does OK, but there are A LOT of supports for those kids there.

The problem is the neighborhood schools' lack of diversity and VPI. Not choice schools.[/quote]

I'm not following you. They aren't adding more VPI classes to option schools. They are already there, they are just maintaining what currently exists, as they should lest each option schools stop reflecting the diversity of the district. As an option school parent, I don't want a less diverse school. It's one of the reasons we preferred the school in the first place. I wonder if putting VPI classrooms at less economically diverse schools and then allowing kids to stay for K-5 would make a difference. I used to think it might, but now I'm just not sure many parents would opt for that, due to distance, and to due to the parents fearing their child would be in the extreme minority and would be easily identifiable as "not from around here," so to speak. [/quote]

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