Anyone move for better schools and regret it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow, I cannot stop reading OP's post and thinking they are listing fewer black/Hispanic children is a great reason to move.

I like it when racists are straight forward with their feelings.saves a lot of time in the long run in determining if people are worth getting to know.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We moved from a GS5 to GS10. Old neighborhood was 30% FARMS/ESOL. New school is virtually no FARMS and 5%ESOL. 1% Black. 2% Hispanic. We live in a beautiful lonely house. The kids and I had so many friends previously. Now there is no one on our block. Some old people wave and say hello occasionally. I want to move back to my old neighborhood.

It’s odd how you’ve juxtaposed these statistics with your feelings of loneliness. Are you suggesting that if you’d just moved to another GS 5 school with lots of FARMS kids instead, you’d have made lots of friends already? It sounds rather contrived.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Wow, I cannot stop reading OP's post and thinking they are listing fewer black/Hispanic children is a great reason to move.

Because too many people associate "better" schools with whiter schools in their thinking, and contribute to segregation.
https://www.citylab.com/equity/2018/01/when-white-parents-wont-integrate-public-schools/551612/
http://educationpost.org/for-too-many-parents-good-schools-still-mean-white-schools/

Oh yes, of course.

Usually the racism I read on DCUM is way more dog-whistley, not this blatant "the fewer brown children, the better" racism from OP.

Op here. Wow. Quite the opposite. I miss my super nice African-American, Hispanic and Asian neighbors.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow, I cannot stop reading OP's post and thinking they are listing fewer black/Hispanic children is a great reason to move.

Because too many people associate "better" schools with whiter schools in their thinking, and contribute to segregation.
https://www.citylab.com/equity/2018/01/when-white-parents-wont-integrate-public-schools/551612/
http://educationpost.org/for-too-many-parents-good-schools-still-mean-white-schools/

Oh yes, of course.

Usually the racism I read on DCUM is way more dog-whistley, not this blatant "the fewer brown children, the better" racism from OP.

Op here. Wow. Quite the opposite. I miss my super nice African-American, Hispanic and Asian neighbors.

"I cant be racist! I have black friends and complimented them!"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow, I cannot stop reading OP's post and thinking they are listing fewer black/Hispanic children is a great reason to move.

Because too many people associate "better" schools with whiter schools in their thinking, and contribute to segregation.
https://www.citylab.com/equity/2018/01/when-white-parents-wont-integrate-public-schools/551612/
http://educationpost.org/for-too-many-parents-good-schools-still-mean-white-schools/

Oh yes, of course.

Usually the racism I read on DCUM is way more dog-whistley, not this blatant "the fewer brown children, the better" racism from OP.

Op here. Wow. Quite the opposite. I miss my super nice African-American, Hispanic and Asian neighbors.

People will still move for better schools, no matter how many heavy-handed threads on obscure forums like this try to anchor them in lower-performing districts. Nice try, but this just wasn’t well-played.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow, I cannot stop reading OP's post and thinking they are listing fewer black/Hispanic children is a great reason to move.

Because too many people associate "better" schools with whiter schools in their thinking, and contribute to segregation.
https://www.citylab.com/equity/2018/01/when-white-parents-wont-integrate-public-schools/551612/
http://educationpost.org/for-too-many-parents-good-schools-still-mean-white-schools/

Oh yes, of course.

Usually the racism I read on DCUM is way more dog-whistley, not this blatant "the fewer brown children, the better" racism from OP.

Op here. Wow. Quite the opposite. I miss my super nice African-American, Hispanic and Asian neighbors.

"I cant be racist! I have black friends and complimented them!"

Don’t try to make this something racist when it is not. It has nothing to do with race. My kids had friends of all different backgrounds at their old school. We didn’t move to this school for no minorities. School just happens to have almost no FARMs and few ESOL kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow, I cannot stop reading OP's post and thinking they are listing fewer black/Hispanic children is a great reason to move.

Because too many people associate "better" schools with whiter schools in their thinking, and contribute to segregation.
https://www.citylab.com/equity/2018/01/when-white-parents-wont-integrate-public-schools/551612/
http://educationpost.org/for-too-many-parents-good-schools-still-mean-white-schools/

Oh yes, of course.

Usually the racism I read on DCUM is way more dog-whistley, not this blatant "the fewer brown children, the better" racism from OP.

Op here. Wow. Quite the opposite. I miss my super nice African-American, Hispanic and Asian neighbors.

"I cant be racist! I have black friends and complimented them!"

Don’t try to make this something racist when it is not. It has nothing to do with race. My kids had friends of all different backgrounds at their old school. We didn’t move to this school for no minorities. School just happens to have almost no FARMs and few ESOL kids.

Anonymous wrote:We moved from a GS5 to GS10. Old neighborhood was 30% FARMS/ESOL. New school is virtually no FARMS and 5%ESOL. 1% Black. 2% Hispanic. We live in a beautiful lonely house. The kids and I had so many friends previously. Now there is no one on our block. Some old people wave and say hello occasionally. I want to move back to my old neighborhood.

Your words, bolding mine.

[Anonymous]

DP. I read those numbers as part of OP's lament. She left a diverse school for an all-white one and she doesn't like it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DP. I read those numbers as part of OP's lament. She left a diverse school for an all-white one and she doesn't like it.

Yeah but they still used the ”..I have black friends!" line which sorta cemented their beliefs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DP. I read those numbers as part of OP's lament. She left a diverse school for an all-white one and she doesn't like it.

So did I.

[Anonymous]

It sounds like it is more about the particular house you choose. We moved but choose a neighborhood where the kids can run around. There are many children on our street and more than we can count on surrounding blocks. There are big lonely isolated houses in our area but we didn’t look at those houses. No regrets to our move. It was a good decision.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It sounds like it is more about the particular house you choose. We moved but choose a neighborhood where the kids can run around. There are many children on our street and more than we can count on surrounding blocks. There are big lonely isolated houses in our area but we didn’t look at those houses. No regrets to our move. It was a good decision.

One more thing, in our new neighborhood we have African American, Asian, Hispanic and white neigbors along with families from other countries. In our old neighborhood we had primarily Hispanic neighbors. Ironically there is more diversity in our new neighborhood. It’s not economic diversity but my children have friends from many different countries.

[Anonymous]

We moved to a less diverse, better rated school (but in the same pyramid) for a larger house and I regret not waiting another year to find a house on the market in our old ES. Our neighborhood seems sterile and the people are very nice but it’s just not the same.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow, I cannot stop reading OP's post and thinking they are listing fewer black/Hispanic children is a great reason to move.

Because too many people associate "better" schools with whiter schools in their thinking, and contribute to segregation.
https://www.citylab.com/equity/2018/01/when-white-parents-wont-integrate-public-schools/551612/
http://educationpost.org/for-too-many-parents-good-schools-still-mean-white-schools/

Oh yes, of course.

Usually the racism I read on DCUM is way more dog-whistley, not this blatant "the fewer brown children, the better" racism from OP.

Op here. Wow. Quite the opposite. I miss my super nice African-American, Hispanic and Asian neighbors.

But you just didn't want your child to be educated with them, obviously

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow, I cannot stop reading OP's post and thinking they are listing fewer black/Hispanic children is a great reason to move.

Because too many people associate "better" schools with whiter schools in their thinking, and contribute to segregation.
https://www.citylab.com/equity/2018/01/when-white-parents-wont-integrate-public-schools/551612/
http://educationpost.org/for-too-many-parents-good-schools-still-mean-white-schools/

Oh yes, of course.

Usually the racism I read on DCUM is way more dog-whistley, not this blatant "the fewer brown children, the better" racism from OP.

Op here. Wow. Quite the opposite. I miss my super nice African-American, Hispanic and Asian neighbors.

But you just didn't want your child to be educated with them, obviously

Also, why didn't you do your homework before you bought the house? I would never buy a house without knowing there were plenty of kids my kid's age in close proximity. Those huge houses always look lonely. If diversity was important to you, did you not research the numbers before choosing the school? All you did was look at a Great Schools ranking?