Why Isn’t Marie Reed in Boundary for Deal or Hardy?
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Anonymous
No, but it’s a very small school. Unlikely to stay IB for Deal/Wilson in next boundary review. |
Anonymous
I think that’s exactly why it will. |
Anonymous
Historically, Shepherd was IB for Deal because the light skinned AAs IB didn’t want to have to mix with darker skinned children from other parts of the city. The demographics of the neighborhood have shifted and there are less IB children of color, many of the J&J set have retired and sold. Less diversity IB undercuts argument for keeping on path to overcrowded schools, |
Anonymous
Complete nonsense. The "J&J set" always sent their kids to private anyway, and historically Shepherd was IB for Deal because Deal needed to reach that far east to fill seats when everyone WOTP sent their kids to privates. Now it looks terrible to boundary Shepherd out because it's the only pipeline for IB black diversity in the "flagship" DCPS middle school, but that isn't why it's IB to begin with. |
Anonymous
Reminder - DC used to have a bunch for "Educational Campuses" that were K-8. The elementary schools around Shepherd went through 8th until the launch of Wells. This is recent history - but does play into some of the decision making. |
Anonymous
Shepherd is not a pipeline for "IB" diversity. It's IB catchment is majority white. |
Anonymous
Shepherd is 55% black. And the catchment area may be majority white but it is still much blacker than any other IB school for Deal/J-R. |
Anonymous
Boundaries are determined by the school catchment. The OOB numbers in the upper grades at Shepherd are telling. If they cared about "diversity," they would sub out Brightwood or Takoma for Shepherd. Ward 4 students should attend school in Ward 4 - including redirecting some of Lafayette's catchment. |
Anonymous
Keep moving your goalposts. Nothing changes about the discussion. Shepherd was not added to Deal to keep lightskinned black kids away from darkskinned black kids. It is now politically unpalatable to remove Shepherd from the Deal feeder pattern because it provides the only IB black kids. But people on this board's obsession with removing the 40 kids that come from Shepherd from the Deal feed, a change that would not fix overcrowding, align schools with their wards, or any other canard of they week, is racist. That's the whole story. |
Anonymous
Yikes. 1) Colorism IS racism. 2) There were Gold Cost families in public schools, most of whom were light-skinned. 3) They did not want to be fed into Coolidge -because there were "too many OOB students. 4) that is code and that is racist. 5) Your concern about your property values in rerouting Shepherd to a Ward 4 school is itself racism or carrying the water of racists. That's the whole story. 
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Anonymous
Is it possible that you are just drunk? Nothing you say follows from anything at all. The "J&J set" (not Gold Coast families writ large, shift shift shift) did not attend public schools, full stop. So yes, colorism is racism, but since colorism is not at the heart of Shepherd being inbounds to Deal it's a red herring. "Too many OOB students" may be code and racist, but since you're the one complaining about OOB students in Shepherd's upper grades it's not clear why that's being thrown at the wall in my direction. I haven't said anything about property values, and I don't live in SP so your terrible guess based on nothing is not the slam dunk you think it is. If only there was an emoji for "I've made a mistake engaging a complete and utter fool on the internet." |
Anonymous
You need help - with neighborhood history - and seemingly malignant narcissism. |
Anonymous
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If diversity at Deal is your goal, switch out Shepherd for Marie Reed to get about the same number of Black students and more Hispanic/Latino students.
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Anonymous
| idk deal is very overcrowded. dcps is due for a boundary assessment and it might be interesting |
Anonymous
The IB Shepherd AAs are politically connected. JR is much better than Coolidge. They wanted their kids to go to JR because it didn’t suck and they got it. End of story. They don’t have to have racist or colorist or any other codes reason to have wanted their kids to go to *a much better school.* |