No race diversity in teachers at my DC's daycare

[Anonymous]

Must be Ft. Myer

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. By DC I meant my dear child, not DC. The day care is in North Arlington.

It is all about the area, OP. Northern Va is going to have sections like this. Take a look at the responses so far from NoVA.

[Anonymous]

OP, do you have any white friends that you can see taking a daycare job?

In DC, most of the white people are middle class and up. In other areas with poorer white people, you will see white daycare workers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, do you have any white friends that you can see taking a daycare job?

In DC, most of the white people are middle class and up. In other areas with poorer white people, you will see white daycare workers.

OP is NOT in DC, duh!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, do you have any white friends that you can see taking a daycare job?

In DC, most of the white people are middle class and up. In other areas with poorer white people, you will see white daycare workers.

OP is NOT in DC, duh!

The same applies to NOVA, unless you know of a huge population of low-income white women in NOVA?

[Anonymous]

Our Northern Virginia daycare center teachers are pretty diverse in racial terms.

My kids have had black, white, and hispanic teachers, young and old teachers, teachers who wear head scarves, and even male music and PE teachers. It's weird I had to think through the specific teachers to come up with the previous sentence.

Racial diversity of staff wasn't a requirement when I looked at places, but I do think it's been good for my kids. If it matters to you it seems like the sort of thing you could easily observe during a tour.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, do you have any white friends that you can see taking a daycare job?

In DC, most of the white people are middle class and up. In other areas with poorer white people, you will see white daycare workers.

OP is NOT in DC, duh!

The same applies to NOVA, unless you know of a huge population of low-income white women in NOVA?

I toured a few centers in Fairfax and there were greater numbers of white female daycare teachers than any other race.

[Anonymous]

I agree with a PP - more of our caregivers were white in Fairfax than in Arlington. The teachers at our current preschool are mostly Asian, Hispanic and Middle-Eastern. My daughter actually spoke Farsi along with English for awhile when she was just starting to talk because so many of her caregivers spoke Farsi as their first language. Amused the hell out of her dad, who was struggling to learn Farsi for work at the time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm not complaining, I'm just asking why other races do not apply for these jobs? I would like more diversity, I also would not like if the teachers were all white. We want our children to be well rounded and be with different races/nationalities.

Why doesn't ANYONE apply for ANY job? because they don't want it. I fail to see the problem here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our Northern Virginia daycare center teachers are pretty diverse in racial terms.

My kids have had black, white, and hispanic teachers, young and old teachers, teachers who wear head scarves, and even male music and PE teachers. It's weird I had to think through the specific teachers to come up with the previous sentence.

Racial diversity of staff wasn't a requirement when I looked at places, but I do think it's been good for my kids. If it matters to you it seems like the sort of thing you could easily observe during a tour.

Ours too (in Burke)- I think there are less than 5 white teachers. Ours are a mix of Latina, Middle Eastern, and South Asian. We ourselves are Asian, if that matters.

[Anonymous]

13:27 here- forgot to include African-American. School teachers are majority AA and Latina. And we are actually not just an Asian family, but a mixed race Asian-Caucasian family.

[Anonymous]

I would guess that Lorton and Springfield areas would have great diversity. Woodbridge also.

[Anonymous]

You all understand that "diversity" has little to do with skin tone and just about everything to do with socioeconomics?

I laugh when rich people pat themselves on the back that their schools and neighborhood are soooo diverse with the rainbow of nationalities. True diversity is interacting with people from different economic and educational backgrounds-which really does not mean much in this area, unless you sit down to talk with your housecleaner while she scrubs your floors.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You all understand that "diversity" has little to do with skin tone and just about everything to do with socioeconomics?

I laugh when rich people pat themselves on the back that their schools and neighborhood are soooo diverse with the rainbow of nationalities. True diversity is interacting with people from different economic and educational backgrounds-which really does not mean much in this area, unless you sit down to talk with your housecleaner while she scrubs your floors.

So true

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You all understand that "diversity" has little to do with skin tone and just about everything to do with socioeconomics?

I laugh when rich people pat themselves on the back that their schools and neighborhood are soooo diverse with the rainbow of nationalities. True diversity is interacting with people from different economic and educational backgrounds-which really does not mean much in this area, unless you sit down to talk with your housecleaner while she scrubs your floors.

To the extent that you are saying that ONLY socioeconomic diversity is "true" diversity, I disagree. Black, white, Latino, Asian - they may all earn the same, but their backgrounds, including their socioeconomic backgrounds, may be vastly different. There is much to appreciate and learn from racial diversity, diversity of origin (immigrant/non-immigrant), religious diversity, etc., etc., as well as from current socioeconomic diversity. The idea that there is only the one, true Diversity is preachy and misguided.