New Report on Racial and Economic Diversity in DC public and charter schools

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wilson may be “diverse” but for the most part, the white kids and the black kids do not socialise together. There is some mixing but not as much as you would expect. I don’t think you can force this stuff. Also, the principal seems to hate that Wilson is supposedly a neighborhood school as she is always complaining about all the entitled white kids. She keeps wanting to create more on-level (not challenging) classes for the lowest performing kids and has no interest in more advanced options for kids who need more than what Wilson is offering.

Much of what you wrote is just not true.
Signed, current Wilson parent

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wilson may be “diverse” but for the most part, the white kids and the black kids do not socialise together. There is some mixing but not as much as you would expect. I don’t think you can force this stuff. Also, the principal seems to hate that Wilson is supposedly a neighborhood school as she is always complaining about all the entitled white kids. She keeps wanting to create more on-level (not challenging) classes for the lowest performing kids and has no interest in more advanced options for kids who need more than what Wilson is offering.

Much of what you wrote is just not true.
Signed, current Wilson parent

Exactly, just made-up stuff for more race baiting. This thread has basically exhausted the race-baiting opportunities from the facts, so let's move on to fiction.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wilson may be “diverse” but for the most part, the white kids and the black kids do not socialise together. There is some mixing but not as much as you would expect. I don’t think you can force this stuff. Also, the principal seems to hate that Wilson is supposedly a neighborhood school as she is always complaining about all the entitled white kids. She keeps wanting to create more on-level (not challenging) classes for the lowest performing kids and has no interest in more advanced options for kids who need more than what Wilson is offering.

This seems entirely wrong to me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maybe the city should offer race-based incentives (tax breaks, low-interest loan programs) for families with children to move into majority white neighborhoods? It wouldn't change the economic diversity very much, but it would incentivise more diversity in majority-white neighborhoods.

Unconstitutional, much?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:On a different tack when we talk about limited school capacity west of the Park - does anyone talk about new charters west of Rock Creek Park? Does PCSB have any known positive or negative views about this?

I think the odds are higher than most people here will anticipate. I was in a recent meeting with Bowser where she talked about the possibility of another WoTP high school. She insisted that such a decision would driven by the population growth (i.e. over-crowding at Wilson).

However, based on her other comments that night, I would extrapolate that any new WOTP high school will likely be open to all of DC. Bowser is big on this, keeping the pathways to WOTP schools open to motivated families throughout the District. I could, potentially, see a magnet charter HS opening WOTP. Ideally, it would combine by-right and application set-asides. For example, promise that 50% of seats are set aside for Hardy students and 50% held for District-wide applications. That would balance diversity, equity, and proximity goals. Any Hardy kids not making the cut-off would still retain rights to Wilson.

Again, DCPS and Bowser needs to lead with carrots, not sticks.

This would only work if District-wide spots were awarded competitively, magnet style, to those applicants with the best academic records, so that students are well-prepared and highly motivated. Otherwise, Upper Northwest parents would never buy it. Those who send their kids to Hardy stomach it, knowing that while it is not on par with Deal at least their kids go on to Wilson. But if a new WOTP becomes just a bigger and badder version of Hardy, with students whose preparation is more spotty and attitude is less attuned to learning, then this will be a worse outcome for Northwest students.

Seems particularly unjust to say that if you live in the neighborhood, you get to go to the school no matter what your academic record is, but if you live



Not really. If you live in Takoma Park, you can automatically go to Blair. The rest of MoCo not in cachement needs to test in.

No reason anywhere else in the city, you have to test in.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Maybe the city should offer race-based incentives (tax breaks, low-interest loan programs) for families with children to move into majority white neighborhoods? It wouldn't change the economic diversity very much, but it would incentivise more diversity in majority-white neighborhoods.

Unconstitutional, much?

I agree with your point but not your writing style - which is annoying, much.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wilson may be “diverse” but for the most part, the white kids and the black kids do not socialise together. There is some mixing but not as much as you would expect. I don’t think you can force this stuff. Also, the principal seems to hate that Wilson is supposedly a neighborhood school as she is always complaining about all the entitled white kids. She keeps wanting to create more on-level (not challenging) classes for the lowest performing kids and has no interest in more advanced options for kids who need more than what Wilson is offering.

This seems entirely wrong to me.

Not wrong at all. I agree with the above post and my youngest and 3rd kid is now at Wilson. The principal there is not focused on day to day running of the school. Do you even read her newsletters? Her latest mission is to change the name of the school

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wilson may be “diverse” but for the most part, the white kids and the black kids do not socialise together. There is some mixing but not as much as you would expect. I don’t think you can force this stuff. Also, the principal seems to hate that Wilson is supposedly a neighborhood school as she is always complaining about all the entitled white kids. She keeps wanting to create more on-level (not challenging) classes for the lowest performing kids and has no interest in more advanced options for kids who need more than what Wilson is offering.

Much of what you wrote is just not true.
Signed, current Wilson parent

Another Wilson parent here and I don’t think it is wrong at all. Principal has communicated many times that she has no issues with overcrowding as she wants Wilson to be open to students from all wards. That is not her decision to make. Wilson is supposed to be a neighborhood school. She often refers to the ward 3 parents as annoying and entitled. I don’t think that is cool.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wilson may be “diverse” but for the most part, the white kids and the black kids do not socialise together. There is some mixing but not as much as you would expect. I don’t think you can force this stuff. Also, the principal seems to hate that Wilson is supposedly a neighborhood school as she is always complaining about all the entitled white kids. She keeps wanting to create more on-level (not challenging) classes for the lowest performing kids and has no interest in more advanced options for kids who need more than what Wilson is offering.

Much of what you wrote is just not true.
Signed, current Wilson parent

Another Wilson parent here and I don’t think it is wrong at all. Principal has communicated many times that she has no issues with overcrowding as she wants Wilson to be open to students from all wards. That is not her decision to make. Wilson is supposed to be a neighborhood school. She often refers to the ward 3 parents as annoying and entitled. I don’t think that is cool.

Proof?

[Anonymous]

The “scrimped and saved for Janney” crowd needs to have their cheese moved. The city should not cater to your self-righteousness. It has for too long and that is part of why we are here.

That said I am a poster who has said elsewhere I’ve given up on a role for WOTP in EOTP integration. What I want for my kids here in Ward 1/4 is growth, success, and opportunity here that will keep me and my kids in this diverse area for school, not come begging over in Tenleytown as part of your “Diversity.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The “scrimped and saved for Janney” crowd needs to have their cheese moved. The city should not cater to your self-righteousness. It has for too long and that is part of why we are here.

That said I am a poster who has said elsewhere I’ve given up on a role for WOTP in EOTP integration. What I want for my kids here in Ward 1/4 is growth, success, and opportunity here that will keep me and my kids in this diverse area for school, not come begging over in Tenleytown as part of your “Diversity.”

The ‘saved and scrimped for Janney’ crowd has paid more than its fair share to subsidize your failing schools, the lazy WTU deadwood who still think that DC guarantees a job for life, the padded administration, the diversity corrdinators, the sweetheart contracts, the whole clown show. Our community has built and supported a school that works, while bailing out you and your lazy neighbors who are too shiftless to put sweat equity into your local schools. And then you have the nerve to say we should have our cheese moved?!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wilson may be “diverse” but for the most part, the white kids and the black kids do not socialise together. There is some mixing but not as much as you would expect. I don’t think you can force this stuff. Also, the principal seems to hate that Wilson is supposedly a neighborhood school as she is always complaining about all the entitled white kids. She keeps wanting to create more on-level (not challenging) classes for the lowest performing kids and has no interest in more advanced options for kids who need more than what Wilson is offering.

This seems entirely wrong to me.

Not wrong at all. I agree with the above post and my youngest and 3rd kid is now at Wilson. The principal there is not focused on day to day running of the school. Do you even read her newsletters? Her latest mission is to change the name of the school

Why are people posting misinformation. The mission to change the name of Wilson does not come from her but from an outside group - black families that were hurt by Wilson's policies. If you knew anything about history, you'd know that Wilson decimated the upcoming black middle class in DC with his racist policies. And one of his cronies created the racist enclave of CC MD. I dont care about changing the name, but get your facts straight.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wilson may be “diverse” but for the most part, the white kids and the black kids do not socialise together. There is some mixing but not as much as you would expect. I don’t think you can force this stuff. Also, the principal seems to hate that Wilson is supposedly a neighborhood school as she is always complaining about all the entitled white kids. She keeps wanting to create more on-level (not challenging) classes for the lowest performing kids and has no interest in more advanced options for kids who need more than what Wilson is offering.

This seems entirely wrong to me.

Not wrong at all. I agree with the above post and my youngest and 3rd kid is now at Wilson. The principal there is not focused on day to day running of the school. Do you even read her newsletters? Her latest mission is to change the name of the school

Why are people posting misinformation. The mission to change the name of Wilson does not come from her but from an outside group - black families that were hurt by Wilson's policies. If you knew anything about history, you'd know that Wilson decimated the upcoming black middle class in DC with his racist policies. And one of his cronies created the racist enclave of CC MD. I dont care about changing the name, but get your facts straight.

If people are offended by President Woodrow Wilson’s name on the high school, then perhaps consider a different school with a name more to their liking. That’s one way to reduce overcrowding!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The “scrimped and saved for Janney” crowd needs to have their cheese moved. The city should not cater to your self-righteousness. It has for too long and that is part of why we are here.

That said I am a poster who has said elsewhere I’ve given up on a role for WOTP in EOTP integration. What I want for my kids here in Ward 1/4 is growth, success, and opportunity here that will keep me and my kids in this diverse area for school, not come begging over in Tenleytown as part of your “Diversity.”

So you want a good, safe, academically sound school in your neighborhood that is not overcrowded and that your kids could even walk to? And you are willing to stay in your neighborhood at your neighborhood school and build it into that school? You aren’t going to flee to the burbs or go charter? Sounds like you have some things in common with the parents WOTP who have already done that. Good luck to you when you achieve it. People from other wards will flock to your success.

[Anonymous]

As a great man once said “you didn’t build that.”