Immersion Programs

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, an AA Director, AA Board, and two AA principals waited until 6 white 3 year olds entered so they could specifically make the school that has been running for 10 years better. JUST for the white kids.

Mary McLeod Bethune would be ashamed of all of you.[/quote
That's exactly what happened. Poster 16:47 explains the new program implemented THIS year. Why not the other nine years when the scho had mostly native DC kids and not gentrifier kids?

What the heck is a DC native, anyway? I was born and raised in DC. Does that make me a native? What if I'm white?

[Anonymous]

Actually forget it. I don't want to get into the "DC native" thing.

Agree with the previous poster - good luck to all DC students and parents this year!

[Anonymous]

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That's exactly what happened. Poster 16:47 explains the new program implemented THIS year. Why not the other nine years when the scho had mostly native DC kids and not gentrifier kids?

That is NOT what happened. Please stop being so hateful. It takes YEARS for changes to be implemented in classrooms. They do not happen overnight. New teaching methods are researched, tested, discussed at multiple board and PTA meetings, then finally they are approved by the Board and put in place in classrooms. These changes were in motion long, long before a single "snowflake" (as one hateful poster above put it) showed up at Bethune, and the intent of these changes is for the benefit of ALL students.

Please stop spreading hate and suspicion, and give thanks that are due to Dr. M and Principal Lewis and all of the faculty and administration at Bethune, who have the best interest of CHILDREN at heart, regardless of their skin color. As adults, we need to live by example. I choose not to teach my child hate. This is not us vs. them. We need to stop seeing kids as black "native DC kids" and white "gentrifier kids" and just see them as KIDS. PERIOD. With no labels attached.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, an AA Director, AA Board, and two AA principals waited until 6 white 3 year olds entered so they could specifically make the school that has been running for 10 years better. JUST for the white kids.

Mary McLeod Bethune would be ashamed of all of you.

Gentrifier! Racist! How do you dare challenge black thought orthodoxy through mere facts?

"orthodoxy?"

Are you implying that ALL blacks think like that?

[Anonymous]

That is NOT what happened. Please stop being so hateful. It takes YEARS for changes to be implemented in classrooms. They do not happen overnight. New teaching methods are researched, tested, discussed at multiple board and PTA meetings, then finally they are approved by the Board and put in place in classrooms. These changes were in motion long, long before a single "snowflake" (as one hateful poster above put it) showed up at Bethune, and the intent of these changes is for the benefit of ALL students.

Please stop spreading hate and suspicion, and give thanks that are due to Dr. M and Principal Lewis and all of the faculty and administration at Bethune, who have the best interest of CHILDREN at heart, regardless of their skin color. As adults, we need to live by example. I choose not to teach my child hate. This is not us vs. them. We need to stop seeing kids as black "native DC kids" and white "gentrifier kids" and just see them as KIDS. PERIOD. With no labels attached.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, an AA Director, AA Board, and two AA principals waited until 6 white 3 year olds entered so they could specifically make the school that has been running for 10 years better. JUST for the white kids.

Mary McLeod Bethune would be ashamed of all of you.

Gentrifier! Racist! How do you dare challenge black thought orthodoxy through mere facts?

"orthodoxy?"

Are you implying that ALL blacks think like that?

Of course not. I'm saying that seems to be the PC public discourse, for whatever reason. I know many blacks don't think like that in private, and sometimes voice it in public.

[Anonymous]

Honestly, if I were a teacher, I would put everyone in time out right now!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, an AA Director, AA Board, and two AA principals waited until 6 white 3 year olds entered so they could specifically make the school that has been running for 10 years better. JUST for the white kids.

Mary McLeod Bethune would be ashamed of all of you.

Gentrifier! Racist! How do you dare challenge black thought orthodoxy through mere facts?

"orthodoxy?"

Are you implying that ALL blacks think like that?

Of course not. I'm saying that seems to be the PC public discourse, for whatever reason. I know many blacks don't think like that in private, and sometimes voice it in public.

Interesting ... (I'm assuming that you are not black) how many "blacks" do you know in a manner that allows you to know how they think.. "in private?"

[Anonymous]

And before all of the yelling along the lines of "Here we go again... not everyone's racist!" starts, I ask that question in order to understand how one can actually know what an ethnic group thinks

[Anonymous]

What the hell is a "native" kid? I am white, moved into DC proper (not the suburbs) as a teen, went to college in DC proper, worked, married, bought homes and had two children within the confines of the District. Are my children (in DCPS and DCPCS) not "native"? Do my children have to be black to be "native"?

And you know, I think it's nice that the city has a lot fewer murders and empty, broken-down, vial-strewn blocks than it did in the 80s. Are those the good old days to you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That is NOT what happened. Please stop being so hateful. It takes YEARS for changes to be implemented in classrooms. They do not happen overnight. New teaching methods are researched, tested, discussed at multiple board and PTA meetings, then finally they are approved by the Board and put in place in classrooms. These changes were in motion long, long before a single "snowflake" (as one hateful poster above put it) showed up at Bethune, and the intent of these changes is for the benefit of ALL students.

Please stop spreading hate and suspicion, and give thanks that are due to Dr. M and Principal Lewis and all of the faculty and administration at Bethune, who have the best interest of CHILDREN at heart, regardless of their skin color. As adults, we need to live by example. I choose not to teach my child hate. This is not us vs. them. We need to stop seeing kids as black "native DC kids" and white "gentrifier kids" and just see them as KIDS. PERIOD. With no labels attached.

+1,000

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And before all of the yelling along the lines of "Here we go again... not everyone's racist!" starts, I ask that question in order to understand how one can actually know what an ethnic group thinks

Good question. I'm white, and personally, I don't think that any one person can speak on behalf of any group. We're all individuals. Let's just be nice to one another!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What the hell is a "native" kid? I am white, moved into DC proper (not the suburbs) as a teen, went to college in DC proper, worked, married, bought homes and had two children within the confines of the District. Are my children (in DCPS and DCPCS) not "native"? Do my children have to be black to be "native"?And you know, I think it's nice that the city has a lot fewer murders and empty, broken-down, vial-strewn blocks than it did in the 80s. Are those the good old days to you?

Of course not. That's a silly question and is baiting.

My understanding of the term is that DC native means someone who was born in DC and spend significant time living there. Which would differ from the term "Washingtonian," which is a term that simply means someone who lives in DC.

That's my understanding but of course its not based on any published research or treatises.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What the hell is a "native" kid? I am white, moved into DC proper (not the suburbs) as a teen, went to college in DC proper, worked, married, bought homes and had two children within the confines of the District. Are my children (in DCPS and DCPCS) not "native"? Do my children have to be black to be "native"?

And you know, I think it's nice that the city has a lot fewer murders and empty, broken-down, vial-strewn blocks than it did in the 80s. Are those the good old days to you?

Okay, let's just not go there. I agree that "native" is an unfair term to use and it irritates me too b/c my children were also born here, etc., etc., but let's move forward, not backward. We don't need to bring up the 80s. Please read my post at 11:28 about all getting along...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, an AA Director, AA Board, and two AA principals waited until 6 white 3 year olds entered so they could specifically make the school that has been running for 10 years better. JUST for the white kids.

Mary McLeod Bethune would be ashamed of all of you.

Gentrifier! Racist! How do you dare challenge black thought orthodoxy through mere facts?

"orthodoxy?"

Are you implying that ALL blacks think like that?

Of course not. I'm saying that seems to be the PC public discourse, for whatever reason. I know many blacks don't think like that in private, and sometimes voice it in public.

Interesting ... (I'm assuming that you are not black) how many "blacks" do you know in a manner that allows you to know how they think.. "in private?"

I am afraid I'm not making my point. How many black people I know is irrelevant (I've talked directly about this point with perhaps 15-20, if you must know). When I used the expression "black thought orthodoxy" I meant based on the public commentary here on DCUM and on other media outlets by people who publicly self-identify as blacks. I am not claiming to know what blacks, even perhaps a majority of blacks, may think. I can only comment on what I see directly, based on public media outlets (far from representative but more representative than any individual sample)