MacArthur is the new Walls
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Anonymous
You are adding 14% at Hardy to 41% at Macarthur to get to 55%? Not following this logic. |
Anonymous
Trying to suppress a snarky comment but you do know that adding two groups with different % doesn’t work like that? Are you saying current MA is 41% at risk and then adding rising 9th grade at 14% to school next year = the whole school 55%??? It’s possible they will still keep 40%+ and Title I due to attrition of non-at-risk Hardy students going private or selective, but no way does the at risk go up so much to become more than half! |
Anonymous
I'm sorry, are you the same poster who said "data is data"? This is not data. Race isn't such a surefire proxy for SES. For example, Shepherd Elementary, a Deal feeder, is 47% black, 7% at risk, and 64% IB. |
Anonymous
Shepherd is the outlier in that the UMC black families congregate there but in the rest of the city, race does correlate with SES. The only other small area of town that might be an outlier is Hillcrest. But above are 2 small sections of the city. Everywhere else everyone knows race correlates with SES. |
Anonymous
Will also add that the majority of middle and UMC black families scattered throughout the rest of the city are not sending their kids to DCPS If you don’t understand why then you don’t know enough of these families. |
Anonymous
“dilute” |
Anonymous
yes, such are the math skills of all the “high performing” W3 parents 😂 |
Anonymous
You're arguing that all the OOB MacArthur students are low SES black kids by ... claiming that UMC and MC black families seek out better schools than their IB? |
Anonymous
The MC and UMC families EOTP are sending their kids to charters or privates. They are not sending their kids to DCPS public schools |
Anonymous
| EOTP Black mom here with kid in DCPS. Our HHI is in the top 5% of this city so… |
Anonymous
Where are you getting this? Loads of us send our kids to DCPS schools EOTP, mainly at the elementary level (Brent, Maury, SWS, Ludlow, Watkins etc). And more Ward 6 UMC families send their children to DC middle schools with each passing year, particularly Stuart Hobson. It's true that hardly any of us send our children to Eastern HS. |
Anonymous
Absolutely not. I live in the middle of the city (ward 2 school and ward 5 house) and I have many UMC black friends. Ivy grads, professors, etc. Mostly new residents, not generational DC people, who want a good enough school but don't want to send their kids to an overwhelming white school (to avoid racism). Make more black friends. Race DOES NOT correlate with SES |
Anonymous
Well it does - on the bottom end. So, if you are poor/uneducated/no job in DC - overwhelming (99.9%) odds are you are black. (If we were in Appalachia - this set would be white!) But yes, on the upper end of course there are rich black people too. |
Anonymous
Many of my black friends have mentioned that being a middle or upper class/highly educated black person in America leads to invisibility, often -- all of them have stories of white people just assuming that they are poor and uneducated. All of them. Read "The Mamas" by Helena Andrews Dyer, a Washington post reporter who Iives in Bloomingdale for a book-length meditation on this. There is a racism at play in those assumptions. Thinking about schools like Seaton and FS -- when you get to know the families there, you realize that more than half of the black population is middle class and above. |
Anonymous
+1. I get tons of scorn heaped on me here when I point out that our “bad” DCPS actually has a solid core of MC black students doing fine. That said there is definitely a thing of bougie black people who wouldn’t send their kid to the school I send my white kid to. I think there is an amount of privilege at play for me in that I don’t have to feel the same anxiety about education. |