“We need to preserve diversity and mitigate the projected whitening of the feeder pattern”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No, it’s really not okay to speak, in an official school system document, about too many white people being a problem. We need to start speaking about diversity in terms of culture and socio-economics. It is a worthy goal to have schools that represent a diversity of culture, sociology-economics and races. Students learn to understand each other if the topics are addressed effectively. But language and respect matter. If you alienate people, they become less willing to engage. We should not make anyone feel unwelcome or as though there is an undesirable number of a particular group.

No one thinks it is a problem that there are white students in DCPS! It’s a problem that they all try to cram in the same 15 schools, leading to systemwide segregation and overcrowding in those schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You're painting with too broad a brush, PP. There are in fact elementary and middle schools in this city full of low-income black and Latino kids with test scores that look like Janney's. But they aren't DCPS programs (neighborhood schools). Look at some of the KIPP test scores and those of DC Prep and Seed.

You and the prior PP are both right. KIPP actually manages to break the cycle and get results that aren’t dependent on the parents’ SES (though parent initiative is still a big factor). DCPS has no such innovative and intensive programs — nor facility to screen for motivated parents — and is left with results that mirror parent SES.

This difference raises an important point: Which schools are ultimately more successful — the ones laser-focused on educational achievement or the ones obsessed with seeking short-cuts to academic success such as renaming classes with fancier names?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No, it’s really not okay to speak, in an official school system document, about too many white people being a problem. We need to start speaking about diversity in terms of culture and socio-economics. It is a worthy goal to have schools that represent a diversity of culture, sociology-economics and races. Students learn to understand each other if the topics are addressed effectively. But language and respect matter. If you alienate people, they become less willing to engage. We should not make anyone feel unwelcome or as though there is an undesirable number of a particular group.

No one thinks it is a problem that there are white students in DCPS! It’s a problem that they all try to cram in the same 15 schools, leading to systemwide segregation and overcrowding in those schools.

+1

[Anonymous]

If you have a problem with this, you are racist and you should GTFO of the city.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No, it’s really not okay to speak, in an official school system document, about too many white people being a problem. We need to start speaking about diversity in terms of culture and socio-economics. It is a worthy goal to have schools that represent a diversity of culture, sociology-economics and races. Students learn to understand each other if the topics are addressed effectively. But language and respect matter. If you alienate people, they become less willing to engage. We should not make anyone feel unwelcome or as though there is an undesirable number of a particular group.

No one thinks it is a problem that there are white students in DCPS! It’s a problem that they all try to cram in the same 15 schools, leading to systemwide segregation and overcrowding in those schools.

So you’re against IB schools?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you have a problem with this, you are racist and you should GTFO of the city.

So eloquent. 😕

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Really DCPS? You actually wrote this in a presentation you prepared for parents?

This is the parent/DCPS working group on changes to the Foxhall Elementary and MacArthur feeder pattern. To literally say this....just, wow. Our kid will be attending these schools.

I need a shower.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/19cvisc6heSYwz295mUyQoeSYNzxoEKWV/view?usp=drivesdk

What a bunch of racists.

[Anonymous]

My theory is that the charters want to break the IB system, particularly in WOTP DC. They see a rich base of customers that they can’t access.

Follow the money and lobbying. Who will materially benefit if the bond between your home and your school is broken?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No, it’s really not okay to speak, in an official school system document, about too many white people being a problem. We need to start speaking about diversity in terms of culture and socio-economics. It is a worthy goal to have schools that represent a diversity of culture, sociology-economics and races. Students learn to understand each other if the topics are addressed effectively. But language and respect matter. If you alienate people, they become less willing to engage. We should not make anyone feel unwelcome or as though there is an undesirable number of a particular group.

No one thinks it is a problem that there are white students in DCPS! It’s a problem that they all try to cram in the same 15 schools, leading to systemwide segregation and overcrowding in those schools.

You seem to be unaware of the fact that there simply aren’t enough white or high SES kids in DCPS to be able to distribute them evenly across all schools and make a meaningful difference (even assuming none of them left when faced with this plan, which they would). And you certainly won’t attract more of those demographics by destroying the neighborhood school system.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No, it’s really not okay to speak, in an official school system document, about too many white people being a problem. We need to start speaking about diversity in terms of culture and socio-economics. It is a worthy goal to have schools that represent a diversity of culture, sociology-economics and races. Students learn to understand each other if the topics are addressed effectively. But language and respect matter. If you alienate people, they become less willing to engage. We should not make anyone feel unwelcome or as though there is an undesirable number of a particular group.

No one thinks it is a problem that there are white students in DCPS! It’s a problem that they all try to cram in the same 15 schools, leading to systemwide segregation and overcrowding in those schools.

So you’re against IB schools?

I personally am for high school, I think it’s silly in a city, especially one this size. And at the lower grades, you’d think DCPS was trying to steal children when they tried to address overcrowding in the Wilson feeder schools in the last boundary review. I think the objections were a bit overwrought if the concern was “walkability.”

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No, it’s really not okay to speak, in an official school system document, about too many white people being a problem. We need to start speaking about diversity in terms of culture and socio-economics. It is a worthy goal to have schools that represent a diversity of culture, sociology-economics and races. Students learn to understand each other if the topics are addressed effectively. But language and respect matter. If you alienate people, they become less willing to engage. We should not make anyone feel unwelcome or as though there is an undesirable number of a particular group.

No one thinks it is a problem that there are white students in DCPS! It’s a problem that they all try to cram in the same 15 schools, leading to systemwide segregation and overcrowding in those schools.

So you’re against IB schools?

I personally am for high school, I think it’s silly in a city, especially one this size. And at the lower grades, you’d think DCPS was trying to steal children when they tried to address overcrowding in the Wilson feeder schools in the last boundary review. I think the objections were a bit overwrought if the concern was “walkability.”

I think it speaks to a justified lack of trust that DCPS will ensure an appropriate college preparatory curriculum at the non-Wilson schools. I’m not sure why it’s so hard and why people are so stubborn about recognizing this: parents of any color are not going to enroll their kids in a failing school based on a dictate from above and nothing else. You need to persuade people that the school will work.

[Anonymous]

DC Government never found a problem it couldn’t exacerbate. Good luck to all as the schools degrade due to the motivated absconding to more challenging learning environments. I mean no racism in that. I simply mean if you shove unprepared and prepared students together, or overcram schools, in forced social engineering experiments to foster equality of outcome (impossible) no sane parent, with education as their main objective, will keep their kids in such an environment.

[Anonymous]

What's wrong with walkability? That's what creates communities and allows parents work options that aren't centered on drop off. Driving also isn't environmentally friendly.

These are complex, nuanced discussions. Decisions have repercussions, both intended and unintended.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What's wrong with walkability? That's what creates communities and allows parents work options that aren't centered on drop off. Driving also isn't environmentally friendly.

These are complex, nuanced discussions. Decisions have repercussions, both intended and unintended.

Walkability is a big reason that parents choose to buy in proximity to schools. Lots of us think being able to walk to school and to leave near classmates is a very big part of what makes a school community

[Anonymous]

live near