Eliot-Hines Middle School

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:U can't b serious with your first sentence? Do u know that is a running joke for AAs, when whites try to justify or validate their I am not racist card. The immediate I know blacks and the infamous I have plenty black friends is just hilarioius. OMG, where is Eddie Murphy when you need him. This is a future SNL skit, I just can imagine it.

Who has the time to go after two schools. Your reference to Eastern being beyond repair is accurate but it doesn't accurately portray the school's rich tradition.

No gripes, no prejuidices but I am pre-judging those who don't have the overall school's best intetests. There's an urgent need to incorporate an IB program at Eastern. But for some apparent reason there's a consensus is that the letters of IB stand for ignoring blacks.

Word of advice, there's one lone white family who has selected Eastern this year. I would strongly encourage you seek out that family to see whether they felt welcome at Eastern.

We all know how whites view other whites when comes to an association with blacks. You know that infamous question of "what do you have in common with them?" I hating because I ask yhe same question too.

Seems there's only one race-baiter on this thread. You're no better than the hackneyed comic who's all, "Black people walk like this! But white people walk like this!"

At the end of the day, the issues the deeply dysfunctional DCPS faces are economic ones, not racial ones. Eventually it's going to get fixed via changing the ratio of poor people to middle-class people. That ratio went to hell after the black middle class moved out of the city in the 70s and 80s. It'll come back into balance as large numbers of middle-class people (black and white) move back into the city--and as likely poor folks find housing in the suburbs increasingly attractive compared with the city.

[Anonymous]

You all slay me with the race-baiter moniker.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You all slay me with the race-baiter moniker.

Well, if one acts like a race-baiting troll, one always runs the risk of someone calling one out on it.

[Anonymous]

12:11, a race-baiter I will accept but the troll reference is not I by a long shot. I can assure you, sweetie.

[Anonymous]

If I am African American and I feel like something is about race - about me being black - how can someone else re-define it into an issue about class?

[Anonymous]

Can you be more specific? If it concerns a situation about you personally that is one thing. But if it concerns you assuming motivations of others in a larger context and you say "it is all about race" and they say, "no its not. It is about ......" . Then it is wrong of you to not accept that.

[Anonymous]

Who needs to hold hands and jump into Eliot Hine together?

[Anonymous]

Students in the actual feeder elementary schools for Eliot Hine: Tyler, Maury, Miner, Brent, Payne. Very few of these 5th graders go to their designated school, Eliot Hine.

[Anonymous]

Becareful using the word "jump" it will be misread that you're gang-associated and all of sudden you are labeled a race-baiter-troll-gang-leader-who's-not-specific.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Students in the actual feeder elementary schools for Eliot Hine: Tyler, Maury, Miner, Brent, Payne. Very few of these 5th graders go to their designated school, Eliot Hine.

The kids in the upper grades at the aforementioned elementary schools are mostly African American. Yet the parents working on "holding hands" and jumping into Eliot Hine are almost all white (and middle class). It doesn't have to mean anything nefarious is going on, but there is a an overwhelming element of race in play.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Students in the actual feeder elementary schools for Eliot Hine: Tyler, Maury, Miner, Brent, Payne. Very few of these 5th graders go to their designated school, Eliot Hine.

The kids in the upper grades at the aforementioned elementary schools are mostly African American. Yet the parents working on "holding hands" and jumping into Eliot Hine are almost all white (and middle class). It doesn't have to mean anything nefarious is going on, but there is a an overwhelming element of race in play.

And they're all committed to Eliot-Hines, no matter what, right? Latin, BASIS, Hardy... Capitol Hill Day School...

It's just so easy to say you're committed. What's hard, is believing that this year will be substantially different from everything up until now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Students in the actual feeder elementary schools for Eliot Hine: Tyler, Maury, Miner, Brent, Payne. Very few of these 5th graders go to their designated school, Eliot Hine.

Anonymous wrote:The kids in the upper grades at the aforementioned elementary schools are mostly African American. Yet the parents working on "holding hands" and jumping into Eliot Hine are almost all white (and middle class). It doesn't have to mean anything nefarious is going on, but there is a an overwhelming element of race in play.

Anonymous wrote:And they're all committed to Eliot-Hines, no matter what, right? Latin, BASIS, Hardy... Capitol Hill Day School... It's just so easy to say you're committed. What's hard, is believing that this year will be substantially different from everything up until now.

In some ways it is easy to believe things will be substantially different. What's hard is finding a way, backed up by data, that Eliot Hine will actually be different from its own history, and different from DC's history, and different from any other struggling urban school system's history.

[Anonymous]

EH needs a new principal before this conversation can even get started. Seriously.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:EH needs a new principal before this conversation can even get started. Seriously.

EH needs a solid base of middle class families, black or white, before this conversation can get started.

[Anonymous]

Ok, bring back the former principal to EH and that is enough conversation on that subject.