GreatSchools makes segregation easy!
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Anonymous
DP. I think that the argument here might be: 1. Affluent black people also try to avoid schools with lots of poor black kids. 2. Therefore it's not racist for affluent white people to try to avoid schools with lots of poor black kids. 3. Therefore something something segregation liberal victimhood. |
Anonymous
my point is no UMC families want their kids going to lower performing schools. There is no racial animosity it is strictly performance based. |
Anonymous
I never heard anybody claiming that they were racists. They find a different ways to all present themselves (for example "realists") and claim that it's natural for the people to segregate (for example the same way as birds do). |
Anonymous
The converse of this is that middle class Black folks are A LOT more comfortable with schools that are majority kids of color, even if those schools have higher-than-average poverty. If we expand our metric beyond the richest folks in the region, to include regular middle class folks, what we see is Black families being comfortable with diversity while white families are willing to move to b*mf*ck hinterlands to avoid kids of color. |
Anonymous
I would quibble with this. Most white families don't want their children to socialize with/marry blacks and the feeling is often the same in the black community. The insertion of Ivy League "Teach for America" whites in black schools was a dismal failure and resulted in the dismissal of some very qualified black teachers. Many people want community schools made up of friends and neighbors. I don't hold with codifying segregation but why fight it when it happens as a matter of choice? |
Anonymous
First, it's factually incorrect that there are no upper-middle-class families who want their kids going to schools with lots of poor kids. There definitely are such families. In fact, there may be many such families, depending on your definition of "upper-middle-class". Second, the existence of class bias does not disprove the existence of race bias. It's possible to be prejudiced against poor people AND brown people. Especially if you believe, as many people do seem to believe, that brown people are poor people (and, conversely, that poor people are brown people). It seems to me that a lot of denial of the continued existence of racism comes from people's desire to not be bad people. In 2018, most of us know that racists are bad people. And we don't to be bad people. So therefore, when we do stuff, it must not be racist. But "racism exists" =/= "you are a bad person", anymore than "water freezes at 32 degrees F" = "people who wear mittens are fools". The existence of racism is a fact, that's all. It's how you deal with that fact that makes you a good person, or a bad one. |
Anonymous
It's a choice in the same sense that my kids' choice of kale over collard greens is a choice. They don't want either kale or collard greens, they want cherry tomatoes. But I'm not offering them cherry tomatoes. If I said, "Why fight it when my kids choose kale?", they would quite rightly point out that, to the extent that they chose kale, it was as the less bad of two bad options. |
Anonymous
Because it's wrong and weakens society. And I don't believe that most white families are so bigoted. People who think their child will receive a better education at a school with less undesirable minorities are wrong. The child's performance will depend a lot more on the parents than on the other kids in the school. If a child does well at a high school like Einstein or Wheaton it's not in spite of the low SES kids there, and that same child would not necessarily do better at a school in Bethesda or Potomac. I just looked up my kids school. It's a 4/10. Who cares? |
Anonymous
Umm, if you are arguing that UMC blacks don't want to send their kids to school with other black children (if this is even true) then how can you possibly argue in favor of segregation and "people being with their own kind"? |
Anonymous
There are plenty of kids of color here in my part of the b*mf*ck hinterlands, actually. 
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Anonymous
Well now I know why some white parents don’t their kids to socialize with my black daughter. Makes sense now! |
Anonymous
Lol! You clearly don't live in one of the gentrifying areas of DC. Tons of highly educated families in schools that are overall lower-performing. |
Anonymous
| I always thought the primary purpose of schools is for kids to gain knowledge on academic topics. The social experience is just a by-product. |
Anonymous
*Racist* white families don't want their children to socialize with/marry blacks Here, I corrected the sentence for you. |
Anonymous
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Is this ever timely:
https://ggwash.org/view/66303/this-video-shows-you-how-to-pick-a-good-school Not that it has groundbreaking information or anything. |