Anonymous wrote:This isn't a liberal or conservative issue most people are going to pick the best school read (high SES which is strongly correlated with race, best test scores etc)

Diversity is a very distance metric for most people if it's even a metric at all.

DC is overwhelmingly liberal and most parents feel this way the ones that don't are generally naive with kids in the early elementary grades

Anonymous wrote:This isn't a liberal or conservative issue most people are going to pick the best school read (high SES which is strongly correlated with race, best test scores etc)

Diversity is a very distance metric for most people if it's even a metric at all.

DC is overwhelmingly liberal and most parents feel this way the ones that don't are generally naive with kids in the early elementary grades

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Actually ACPS has one of the higher concentrations of African immigrants in their schools and most of the kids are barely passing. They are certainly not the top of their class. There are some exceptions though and those kids usually have parents who were highly educated in their home countries.

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Anonymous wrote:My children are half white. For me, it's not about diversity but how serious the school population is about education and success. My ancestors were working class semi-literate European immigrants but from what I understand it was a privilege to be able to do your homework because chores and working for money came first. (And they behaved because the nuns would slap you with a ruler otherwise.) so really, it depends if most of the school- especially parents- are all on the same page. Years ago, peop?e did well with one room schoolhouse educations. It's the overall philosophy and attitude toward education.

Yup and poor blacks and poor whites could care less about education

poor hispanics are working too much to care

and poor Asians do care and low and behold look at what the most successful race is now

The most educated and highest earning immigrant group in the United States is Africans, not East Asians. I'm sure you'll be running to sign your kids up at majority Black schools now, right?

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Anonymous wrote:So from what I'm reading everyone will just sacrifice the quality of education their children receive for diversity.

I read a thread recently where someone said they requested to be in a lower rated school instead of the highly rated school they were zoned for so that there would be more diversity.

This is the craziest thing I have heard in a while. So do your children not see any people of different color, religion, SES, country of origin etc... At any sports? Your ? (maybe going to private), the grocery store, life in general?

I would never sacrifice my child's quality of education for anything. They have plenty of friends who are different because they don't go to school 24 hours a day 7 days a week.

Honestly what am I missing here? My children's education is one of the most important things to our family, I can't imagine not caring about the learning my children receive because I care more about the type of kids in the class.

+1 education must be selected carefully. You can good dose of diversity riding the NYC subway 1 hour each way for many years. All colors, all classes, lots of homeless, and lots of mentally ill as well. It really opened my mind sitting next to someone off their meds.

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Anonymous wrote:This is a false question. Op is a crock of shit. Op is insinuating that whites leave diverse schools for better educations.

This is false. Whites leave diverse schools not for educational reasons but because whites don't want to walk in the shoes of other minorities.

This is proven by what happens when asians get too high of a concentration in schools - white families leave

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White flight happened in my children's old school because the white families feared competition from Asian students. Actually, it was a blessing because my children had the best of two worlds. A diverse school that was an academic powerhouse. I don't mind diversity at my children's current school because there are many African and Asian immigrant families who value education. We don't need white students to make our school great. The students at my children's school can run circles around white students. White Americans don't want to buck up and play ball with us because academically speaking we will demolish them in every category. White Americans have done a number on African Americans and Latinos in regards to racist educational practices. Those practices don't work on Asian and African immigrant families. They can leave our schools because we don't care. We prefer that they leave because their children are slowing our children down. Unlike African Americans and Latinos we don't give a damn rather you like us or not. Nor will we beg to have a seat at your table. Asians can and we have made our own tables by becoming the most wealthy and educated individuals in this country. White people like to be dominant. It infuriates them to know that minority children are outperforming their children. I wish their focus was more on equality, but white people's egos are too fragile and insecure. They don't want their children being educated in an environment with lions. So, the leave and go to schools where they can feel superior. It's the nature of the beast. Children who are not academic alphas will be devoured in a predominately Asian school. Academic alphas of all races don't complain they do. Betas run away when they realize they can no longer challenge the alphas.

Some minorities don't need nor do we want white people to help diversify our schools. We already got that covered. Whites don't want equality. They want domination. If they want to flee to low performing schools, then good riddance!

Anonymous wrote:So from what I'm reading everyone will just sacrifice the quality of education their children receive for diversity.

I read a thread recently where someone said they requested to be in a lower rated school instead of the highly rated school they were zoned for so that there would be more diversity.

This is the craziest thing I have heard in a while. So do your children not see any people of different color, religion, SES, country of origin etc... At any sports? Your ? (maybe going to private), the grocery store, life in general?

I would never sacrifice my child's quality of education for anything. They have plenty of friends who are different because they don't go to school 24 hours a day 7 days a week.

Honestly what am I missing here? My children's education is one of the most important things to our family, I can't imagine not caring about the learning my children receive because I care more about the type of kids in the class.

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Anonymous wrote:My children are half white. For me, it's not about diversity but how serious the school population is about education and success. My ancestors were working class semi-literate European immigrants but from what I understand it was a privilege to be able to do your homework because chores and working for money came first. (And they behaved because the nuns would slap you with a ruler otherwise.) so really, it depends if most of the school- especially parents- are all on the same page. Years ago, peop?e did well with one room schoolhouse educations. It's the overall philosophy and attitude toward education.

Yup and poor blacks and poor whites could care less about education

poor hispanics are working too much to care

and poor Asians do care and low and behold look at what the most successful race is now

It's hard to be convincing when you say "could care less" and "low and behold."

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Anonymous wrote:My children are half white. For me, it's not about diversity but how serious the school population is about education and success. My ancestors were working class semi-literate European immigrants but from what I understand it was a privilege to be able to do your homework because chores and working for money came first. (And they behaved because the nuns would slap you with a ruler otherwise.) so really, it depends if most of the school- especially parents- are all on the same page. Years ago, peop?e did well with one room schoolhouse educations. It's the overall philosophy and attitude toward education.

Yup and poor blacks and poor whites could care less about education

poor hispanics are working too much to care

and poor Asians do care and low and behold look at what the most successful race is now

The most educated and highest earning immigrant group in the United States is Africans, not East Asians. I'm sure you'll be running to sign your kids up at majority Black schools now, right?

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Anonymous wrote:My children are half white. For me, it's not about diversity but how serious the school population is about education and success. My ancestors were working class semi-literate European immigrants but from what I understand it was a privilege to be able to do your homework because chores and working for money came first. (And they behaved because the nuns would slap you with a ruler otherwise.) so really, it depends if most of the school- especially parents- are all on the same page. Years ago, peop?e did well with one room schoolhouse educations. It's the overall philosophy and attitude toward education.

Yup and poor blacks and poor whites could care less about education

poor hispanics are working too much to care

and poor Asians do care and low and behold look at what the most successful race is now

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My children are half white. For me, it's not about diversity but how serious the school population is about education and success. My ancestors were working class semi-literate European immigrants but from what I understand it was a privilege to be able to do your homework because chores and working for money came first. (And they behaved because the nuns would slap you with a ruler otherwise.) so really, it depends if most of the school- especially parents- are all on the same page. Years ago, peop?e did well with one room schoolhouse educations. It's the overall philosophy and attitude toward education.

Yup and poor blacks and poor whites could care less about education

poor hispanics are working too much to care

and poor Asians do care and low and behold look at what the most successful race is now