Best DC Privates for Diversity

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Christ Episcopal School - Rockville, MD.

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What is your definition of diversity?

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Anonymous wrote:What is your definition of diversity?

Ones that are welcoming to all races, sexual orientations, gender identities, national origin, class but maybe the last one silly since they all cost $39K+

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Anonymous wrote:Spare me, none of them have a tenth the diversity of a small town public school

Find me the ones that enroll the kids of top politicians alongside special needs, vocational students, and kids living in poverty who will likely drop out a couple years into puberty (drop out of school, not drop out of puberty)

This. I live in a small town and we have zero diversity

DC are in a small town public school. It’s as White as snow. If OP wants racial diversity, you couldn’t be more wrong. There is very little diversity in small towns; period.

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What kind of diversity do you want? What one person wants is likely different from another.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s all selective diversity.

And that's a bad thing?

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Anonymous wrote:What is your definition of diversity?

Ones that are welcoming to all races, sexual orientations, gender identities, national origin, class but maybe the last one silly since they all cost $39K+

I would say most, if not all, of the area privates would fit this definition of diversity with the exception of income level. Most, if not all, provide significant aid but usually not a free ride (in order to provide aid to more kids). Therefore, while there will be many kids coming from two working parent families who would be considered "middle class," very very few would be from low income families (food stamps, etc. as a PP described).

Not to start a firestorm, but independent schools are not responsible for providing a free education and including low income families in the definition of diversity in that context is unfair. To insure that children from low income families receive the quality educations they deserve and have a right to, we need our public schools - for which we all pay by way of real estate taxes (or rent used for real estate taxes) - to do a better job.

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Anonymous wrote:There isn't true diversity at any, just like PP said rich or middle-high income kids in ever color. They aren't pulling kids who are in true need like foods stamps and cash assistance.

You are wrong.

Which privates have large numbers of students on food stamps? There are catholic schools who try to serve poor communities, but I can't think of any independents that go beyond token representation

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Anonymous wrote:There isn't true diversity at any, just like PP said rich or middle-high income kids in ever color. They aren't pulling kids who are in true need like foods stamps and cash assistance.

You are wrong.

Which privates have large numbers of students on food stamps? There are catholic schools who try to serve poor communities, but I can't think of any independents that go beyond token representation

For many private schools, the parents have to get the kids there. You should be able to see this would be very difficult for many families in the food stamp demographic.

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Anonymous wrote:There isn't true diversity at any, just like PP said rich or middle-high income kids in ever color. They aren't pulling kids who are in true need like foods stamps and cash assistance.

You are wrong.

Which privates have large numbers of students on food stamps? There are catholic schools who try to serve poor communities, but I can't think of any independents that go beyond token representation

For many private schools, the parents have to get the kids there. You should be able to see this would be very difficult for many families in the food stamp demographic.

I do, but the prior pp insisted that people are wrong and these schools have families on food stamps

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Most of the private schools themselves are welcoming. The students, OTOH, tend to self-segregate, even in the most progressive schools. The rich white kids with a few hand-picked black athletes (always boys) socialize almost exclusively among themselves, and the schools do nothing about it.

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It's ironic how the parents of the rich white kids choose these progressive schools based on their so-called progressive politics and values, but think and do nothing about how their kids' social circles are almost exclusively white and rich.

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Anonymous wrote:Burke

Agree, with one comment. Burke does a better job recruiting African American families than Asian or Latino families.

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Anonymous wrote:It's ironic how the parents of the rich white kids choose these progressive schools based on their so-called progressive politics and values, but think and do nothing about how their kids' social circles are almost exclusively white and rich.

It's ironic that you don't understand that many of these schools are "progressive" in terms of pedagogy, which has nothing to do with politics.

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Anonymous wrote:St John’s College High School

I thought that school was pretty conservative.