Ron Brown School for Boys first year

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I might be horrible, but I'm a person of color who grew up poor, FARMs all the way. Without white and middle-class peers in school, I wouldn't have thought to go to college, or if I had gone, I probably wouldn't have graduated, no matter how strong the academics were. Without a diverse HS in my background, college and law school wouldn't have been on my horizon.

I earn 150K and live in a house in which I have at least 700K of equity. I want those boys to have what I have. Sadly, a racially and economically segregated environment in school probably won't put them on a path to prosperity, or integration into the larger society. Wish things were different. So please spare me your holier than thou bleeding heart diatribe. No, I don't like the set-up at the Ron Brown School for Boys.

So you won't be enrolling your kids at Ellington either?

Or Banneker...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I might be horrible, but I'm a person of color who grew up poor, FARMs all the way. Without white and middle-class peers in school, I wouldn't have thought to go to college, or if I had gone, I probably wouldn't have graduated, no matter how strong the academics were. Without a diverse HS in my background, college and law school wouldn't have been on my horizon.

I earn 150K and live in a house in which I have at least 700K of equity. I want those boys to have what I have. Sadly, a racially and economically segregated environment in school probably won't put them on a path to prosperity, or integration into the larger society. Wish things were different. So please spare me your holier than thou bleeding heart diatribe. No, I don't like the set-up at the Ron Brown School for Boys.

So you're projecting failure for these young men because YOUR experience that wasn't even your experience? You assume that you wouldn't have succeeded but you don't even know because you didn't experience it? Ok got it. I grew up poor, went to a poor school in high school in LA, went to an HBCU, only got my BS, and make $180k. I only have $400k equity but I only bought in 2012. Maybe I would have done better had I gone to a school in the Palosades but I think I did just fine. If any of these boys graduate from college and stay out jail or a casket, they will be a success in my eyes despite what they earn or how much equity they obtain.

[Anonymous]

It's so unfortunate that some use this forum to speak so poorly of African American youth. So glad to read other posts that see these post and poster for what they are. Solidly behind the Ron Brown school and its mission.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I might be horrible, but I'm a person of color who grew up poor, FARMs all the way. Without white and middle-class peers in school, I wouldn't have thought to go to college, or if I had gone, I probably wouldn't have graduated, no matter how strong the academics were. Without a diverse HS in my background, college and law school wouldn't have been on my horizon.

I earn 150K and live in a house in which I have at least 700K of equity. I want those boys to have what I have. Sadly, a racially and economically segregated environment in school probably won't put them on a path to prosperity, or integration into the larger society. Wish things were different. So please spare me your holier than thou bleeding heart diatribe. No, I don't like the set-up at the Ron Brown School for Boys.

So you won't be enrolling your kids at Ellington either?

Dunbar? Thi is such a dumb post, because without this school those kids may have dropped out and not be on the path for anywhere. This school is not for everyone, and clearly wouldn't be for you but it's one school in the whole system that their parent or families thought would work for them, nothing to do with you really...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Rah, rah, rah. I, too, would be thrilled if high SES kids were involved. St. Albans in DC public. Let's face it, without high SES peers, most of these kids aren't going to soar at RBSB, or afterwards. They think they will, their parents will think they will, their teachers may think they will, but, for the most part, they won't. Not in America in 2017.

Poor little rich kids. Not getting everything they want, whenever they want.

[Anonymous]

Give it up already; nobody's taking the bait.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I might be horrible, but I'm a person of color who grew up poor, FARMs all the way. Without white and middle-class peers in school, I wouldn't have thought to go to college, or if I had gone, I probably wouldn't have graduated, no matter how strong the academics were. Without a diverse HS in my background, college and law school wouldn't have been on my horizon.

I earn 150K and live in a house in which I have at least 700K of equity. I want those boys to have what I have. Sadly, a racially and economically segregated environment in school probably won't put them on a path to prosperity, or integration into the larger society. Wish things were different. So please spare me your holier than thou bleeding heart diatribe. No, I don't like the set-up at the Ron Brown School for Boys.

So you're projecting failure for these young men because YOUR experience that wasn't even your experience? You assume that you wouldn't have succeeded but you don't even know because you didn't experience it? Ok got it. I grew up poor, went to a poor school in high school in LA, went to an HBCU, only got my BS, and make $180k. I only have $400k equity but I only bought in 2012. Maybe I would have done better had I gone to a school in the Palosades but I think I did just fine. If any of these boys graduate from college and stay out jail or a casket, they will be a success in my eyes despite what they earn or how much equity they obtain.

OK, so you're against diverse urban schools? No point in bothering to set them up?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I might be horrible, but I'm a person of color who grew up poor, FARMs all the way. Without white and middle-class peers in school, I wouldn't have thought to go to college, or if I had gone, I probably wouldn't have graduated, no matter how strong the academics were. Without a diverse HS in my background, college and law school wouldn't have been on my horizon.

I earn 150K and live in a house in which I have at least 700K of equity. I want those boys to have what I have. Sadly, a racially and economically segregated environment in school probably won't put them on a path to prosperity, or integration into the larger society. Wish things were different. So please spare me your holier than thou bleeding heart diatribe. No, I don't like the set-up at the Ron Brown School for Boys.

So you're projecting failure for these young men because YOUR experience that wasn't even your experience? You assume that you wouldn't have succeeded but you don't even know because you didn't experience it? Ok got it. I grew up poor, went to a poor school in high school in LA, went to an HBCU, only got my BS, and make $180k. I only have $400k equity but I only bought in 2012. Maybe I would have done better had I gone to a school in the Palosades but I think I did just fine. If any of these boys graduate from college and stay out jail or a casket, they will be a success in my eyes despite what they earn or how much equity they obtain.

OK, so you're against diverse urban schools? No point in bothering to set them up?

Every charter school in the city, and many dcps schools, have the potential to be diverse urban schools, if middle and upper class students were willing to attend. But while we are waiting for gentrifiers to get over their fear of poor black kids, this is a good option.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I might be horrible, but I'm a person of color who grew up poor, FARMs all the way. Without white and middle-class peers in school, I wouldn't have thought to go to college, or if I had gone, I probably wouldn't have graduated, no matter how strong the academics were. Without a diverse HS in my background, college and law school wouldn't have been on my horizon.

I earn 150K and live in a house in which I have at least 700K of equity. I want those boys to have what I have. Sadly, a racially and economically segregated environment in school probably won't put them on a path to prosperity, or integration into the larger society. Wish things were different. So please spare me your holier than thou bleeding heart diatribe. No, I don't like the set-up at the Ron Brown School for Boys.

I don't think you are horrible and can understand your point. But then again, for many of those boys, getting a high school diploma will be an achievement they would otherwise not have reached.

Maybe they don't go on to college but their positive high school experience gives the opportunity to learn more than they would have at another DCPS school and gives them a better appreciation for education which they in turn pass on to their own children and they then try and do better in terms of education for their own children as well.

You have to realize that you are the exception not the rule and that the vast majority of those who grow up very poor will not escape. For most, it will be slow climb over generations.

On another issue, I was dismayed to read from several of the boys that they would purposely act out to get suspended from school and it would work. I have to wonder if the suspension process is just encouraging worse behavior at DCPS middle schools and if the schools started changing that approach if some of the behaviors might change?

[Anonymous]

Ah, I didn't know that I was the exception.

I don't like segregated schools and the trend toward schools regretting in this country. Don't like Banneker as high school just for minorities. Don't like Ron Brown School for boys.

[Anonymous]

Any race can apply to Banneker. Any boys can apply to Ron Brown. There are no racial or income rules for either.

[Anonymous]

Banneker is not just for minorities. I wish people would learn that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Any race can apply to Banneker. Any boys can apply to Ron Brown. There are no racial or income rules for either.

Sure. No "racial or income rules" explains why there are around 3 white kids at Banneker, and zero at Ron Brown.

Dig deeper, analyze, do some research, exercise common sense, look at the big picture, you can do it.

[Anonymous]

WhAt grade does this school begin? Where located? Thx

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:WhAt grade does this school begin? Where located? Thx

9th grade. Near Deanwood Metro station in NE.