Are charter schools predominantly AA?
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Anonymous
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Inspired Teaching 39% caucasion
Mundo Verde 35% caucasion/ 40% hispanic LAMB 21% / 57% hispanic Yu Ying 27% caucasion / 18% Asian Cap City 33% caucasion / 28% hispanic Two Rivers 34% caucasion / 57% AA popular, not as mixed Haynes 54% AA / 31% Hispanic / 11% caucasion Stokes 44% AA / 41% Hispanic / 11% caucasion |
Anonymous
| **PP meant Haynes and Stokes not as mixed as far as % of caucasion, pretty mixed with AA and hispanic. |
Anonymous
Yes, but the more sought after they are the harder it is to get a slot. Some some of you (maybe even you OP!) will have to slum with the rest of us. 
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Anonymous
le What I want to know is why, when my 2 kids are not in a charter but both owe $4 GASP in unpaid lunch fees, the incessant and I mean unbelievable like 3x a week per kid ROBO CALLS from DCPS refer to us (the mixed race couple who had the children) as "the parent or guardian of X child from American Somoa (1 child)" and "the parent or legal guardian of Y child (of Filipino descent)" in a very deep serious voice refer to race when trying to collect lunch money, and then tell me my kids have two different baby daddies and us parents are completely wrong about what race we are. Do you think my husband just, as he likes to do, checked "OTHER" on some lunch form? It was kind of funny but now it is annoying especially bc I do not know how to pay. We will all become sky blue or grass green if they would just stop..... Does anyone else get these calls? I wish I could record them.... |
Anonymous
Yes because if your kids has more black classmates than white, you're "slumming" it. I think kids at Shepherd Elementary would disagree. |
Anonymous
Unless, of course, you are at SWS - majority white!!!! I know it's not a charter, but it is citywide (a little-known fact that is kept quite). |
Anonymous
Relax. I was being sarcastic. My kids is one of like 10 white kids at his own school. And he is doing great. |
Anonymous
You know, it's nice that you're trying to be helpful to OP and offering actual data, but it really bothers me that OP is clearly looking for the whiter schools and you and anyone else who took the original question and the "which schools?" question seriously and are answering, are feeding that question. OP, seriously, from the bottom of my heart: if you want majority white schools, put in for JKLMM DCPS beloved schools, and other than that go private. While it's quite possible that your kid and maybe even you might end up having a very positive experience despite your prejudices, please leave the other DCPS schools and all the charter schools for those of us who at least know who the schools serve, and maybe even like and appreciate who the schools serve, and that diversity. Please don't take a hard to get slot at these charters away from people who crave or at least understand diversity and who lives in DC. Seriously, please don't do it. |
Anonymous
Btw, the "understanding who lives in DC" is about understanding the demographics of DC. It is not questioning the residency of OP. But OP, the rest of the begging to just stay away still stands. |
Anonymous
| I am the Pp that posted the stats. I currently attend one of those schools. We are biracial family. I think it's important to attend a school that is representative of the city we live in and includes economic and and racial diversity. None of the schools listed above are whiter, they are simply indicative of the city we live in. |
Anonymous
My point is that the OP is looking for whiter, or is concerned that DC charters may be mostly/all AA. OP then went on to ask which schools were whiter. By actually giving statistics, it legitimizes the question. To me, any person considering sending their kid to a DC charter who is naive/ignorant/prejudice enough to ask "Are charter schools predominantly AA?" obviously does not know the make up of DC demographically outside his/her little niche, and doesn't know who these schools serve. If someone has the attitude of not wanting to go to a school that is predominantly AA, I dont' want to give them information because I don't want to honor that attitude with an answer. You have a right to feel that way; and I have a right to think you should stick to whatever other, predominantly white options you are, because you'd be toxic to a DC charter (no matter how diverse/majority white it is). |
Anonymous
| I am glad you asked the question. It just validates my statement, that blacks are attracted to shiney and new objects. |
Anonymous
Wtf??! |
Anonymous
| White person here... These numbers games are foolish. As a kid growing up, I went to all kinds of schools. A very diverse mix of schools. Schools where I was the only white kid in the class, schools where out of over a thousand kids we only had 3 AA kids in the entire school (two were Haitian, one was very high-SES), schools that were overwhelming majority latino, schools that were overwhelming majority AA, schools abroad where I was the unwelcome foreign immigrant and so on. Ultimately the only things that matter are whether you are getting a decent and appropriate education, and whether you are happy and are treated well. I don't really even know or care what the percentages are at my kid's school. If my kid's happy, I'm happy. That's all there is to it. End of story. |
Anonymous
Here is "who lives in DC," as of 2011, the last year official US census stats are available for the District of Columbia: White persons, non-Hispanic --35% Black persons - 50% Hispanic persons - 9.5% Asian persons - 3.7% people reporting two or more "races" - 2.5% http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/11000.html Of course, this is not synched at all with "who attends DC schools." The above pie chart reflects the large influx of single 20-somethings over the past decade who don't have school-age children. |