No race diversity in teachers at my DC's daycare

[Anonymous]

My DC goes to a huge government day center -- there are about 120 teachers and I would say that at least 100 are black. I'm happy with the daycare and the teachers, but I'm just trying to understand why the lack of diversity. I thought that in the government each agency has to have some sort of a racial quota.

[Anonymous]

Racial quotas are illegal.

The District of Columbia is around 50% black. Why wouldn't you expect there to be a lot of black workers? What is the problem? If 100 teachers were white, would you be complaining about the "lack of diversity"? I suspect not.

[Anonymous]

Most the of the teachers in my (white) daughters daycare are AA, the others are Indian and a few I'm not sure about. She has no white teachers.

I'm not sure the issue - all of the teachers she has have been great. Loving and caring -

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Racial quotas are illegal.

The District of Columbia is around 50% black. Why wouldn't you expect there to be a lot of black workers? What is the problem? If 100 teachers were white, would you be complaining about the "lack of diversity"? I suspect not.

Well, by your logic then, there should only be 60 black DCPs.

At the end of the day, who cares-as long a the care is good? Children are and should be color blind. I'm in the burbs and my children's DCPs have been hispanic. It boils down to what socioeconomic group will work for the lowes wages? In the burbs it is hispanics, in DC it blacks.

[Anonymous]

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.

[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.

OP, the PP just answered your question:

"It boils down to what socioeconomic group will work for the lowes wages".

[Anonymous]

What type of diversity are you looking for? Day care workers don't make much, so the only people filling these positions will be people who don't have a degree and/or are near the poverty line. In DC, black folks win this sad prize. Do you actually think you'll find white women in the DC area doing low-wage day care work? Get real.

[Anonymous]

Its based on the area. We are in Northern Va with at a center with 100% white staff. When we were in P.G. County there was a mix of white and black teachers with a few from the Philippines.

[Anonymous]

The most important thing is whether the teachers are adequately trained professionals. After that, diversity in a preschool situation is a far less important factor. Once the kid grows older, and is in a school for a greater number of years, both gender and ethnic and other types of diversity become much more important. I wouldn't worry about it for preschool, regardless of the type of group that makes up the current teacher staff.

[Anonymous]

"It boils down to what socioeconomic group will work for the lower wages".

That's your answer right there.

[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.

How about both genders represented? How many of these teachers are male? How many teachers of young children generally are male?

As a PP said, ""It boils down to what socioeconomic group will work for the lowes wages." I would add, "and which gender" to "what socioeconomic group."

[Anonymous]

We are in Nova and 100 percent of DS's teachers are Hispanic. We are thrilled because he is learning a lot of Spanish, which we would not be able to teach him ourselves.

[Anonymous]

Which matters more in the end : racially diverse group of students racially diverse group of teachers?

Not O.P. but something to consider. I would say it matters more to have diversity in the class not teachers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The most important thing is whether the teachers are adequately trained professionals.

This was definitely not the case in the Bright Horizons daycare to which I (very briefly) sent my infant. And not much of a surprise, either -- the low-paying daycare jobs aren't going to attract adequately trained professionals.

[Anonymous]

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