In DC: "White Parents Horrified by George Floyd Video Still Go to Great Lengths..."

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The hairshirt crowd is welcome to enroll their kids at Ballou. No one is stopping you.

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Anonymous wrote:Yep. There are a whole lot of hypocrites on this website that's for sure.

+1. I find it so funny that they are so defensive about their hypocrisy. Yes, dear, you purchased a 1.2 million dollar, 1,000 sq ft home in upper NW “for the schools”. We all know what you mean. But, hey, you went to a BLM protest and have a little sign in your yard.

This is just bizarre. Most of the schools in DC are very bad. Some are HILARIOUSLY bad. Most of the schools in UNW are quite good. So what is hypocritical about wanting your kids to go to a good school?

People think that good means white. And if you mention test scores you’re racist and if you mention criminal behavior you’re really racist

The Washington Post had a very sad story about how even the valedictorians of bad high schools in DC struggled in college.

"Collier, the 2011 valedictorian at Ballou Senior High in Southeast Washington, said the first thing she noticed when she arrived at Penn State University was how intently her fellow students paid attention during class.

“It was like, ‘Wow, everyone’s on the same page and everyone wants to learn,’ ” Collier said. “At Ballou, it wasn’t like that at all. I was always trying to get the students quiet.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/graduates-from-low-performing-dc-schools-face-tough-college-road/2013/06/16/e4c769a0-d49a-11e2-a73e-826d299ff459_story.html

Is Wilson a bad high school? From the same article:

Seth Brown took 11 AP classes on his way to becoming the 2010 valedictorian at Wilson High in Northwest Washington. That meant he entered Dartmouth College with credit for at least five courses under his belt. Still, he was overwhelmed during his first semester at the New Hampshire Ivy League school because he was assigned two five-page writing assignments — longer than any assignments he’d completed in high school, he said.

“It was the most daunting task,” said Brown, a rising senior at Dartmouth. “I didn’t even know where to start.”

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Anonymous wrote:Yep. There are a whole lot of hypocrites on this website that's for sure.

+1. I find it so funny that they are so defensive about their hypocrisy. Yes, dear, you purchased a 1.2 million dollar, 1,000 sq ft home in upper NW “for the schools”. We all know what you mean. But, hey, you went to a BLM protest and have a little sign in your yard.

This is just bizarre. Most of the schools in DC are very bad. Some are HILARIOUSLY bad. Most of the schools in UNW are quite good. So what is hypocritical about wanting your kids to go to a good school?

People think that good means white. And if you mention test scores you’re racist and if you mention criminal behavior you’re really racist

The Washington Post had a very sad story about how even the valedictorians of bad high schools in DC struggled in college.

"Collier, the 2011 valedictorian at Ballou Senior High in Southeast Washington, said the first thing she noticed when she arrived at Penn State University was how intently her fellow students paid attention during class.

“It was like, ‘Wow, everyone’s on the same page and everyone wants to learn,’ ” Collier said. “At Ballou, it wasn’t like that at all. I was always trying to get the students quiet.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/graduates-from-low-performing-dc-schools-face-tough-college-road/2013/06/16/e4c769a0-d49a-11e2-a73e-826d299ff459_story.html

Is Wilson a bad high school? From the same article:

Seth Brown took 11 AP classes on his way to becoming the 2010 valedictorian at Wilson High in Northwest Washington. That meant he entered Dartmouth College with credit for at least five courses under his belt. Still, he was overwhelmed during his first semester at the New Hampshire Ivy League school because he was assigned two five-page writing assignments — longer than any assignments he’d completed in high school, he said.

“It was the most daunting task,” said Brown, a rising senior at Dartmouth. “I didn’t even know where to start.”

What’s sad is that I went to excellent suburban public school, graduated in 1997, went to a “near” Ivy, and also struggled to write papers in college as I had spent my earlier years taking multiple choice tests. So, in conclusion, public education has sucked for a long time.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m trying my best to do away with this high SES white mindset. We moved EotP and both my kids attend DC public schools that are majority minority. It has been a positive experience! We could easily afford private but decided we didn’t want our kids to live in such a cloistered environment. It is adding to our society’s problems by selecting to segregate.

Oh and oddly enough no one has ever suggested that we are gentrifying anything.

Maybe off topic, but if you haven't listened to the podcast Nice White Parents, it may be eye opening, providing some history and context for things you may not have noticed. And some good pitfalls to avoid.

There's a 700 page thread on that somewhere. It has been discussed ad nauseum.

Good point if someone wants to read 700 pages of blather about it, but that wasn't the recommendation.

The point was that the stuff in the Nice White Parents has been noticed, and discussed, and re-hashed. A great deal.

I would imagine that if one read this thread even, they'd find mention of that podcast. The poster is not gracing us with some new source of info that this board hasn't gone over already in gross detail.

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Anonymous wrote:I have become, and I hate to admit it, increasingly hostile to woke politics. Not because I don’t believe in racist equality, but because so many obnoxious fux are trying to shove half baked policies down my throat. Cancelling AP classes, cancelling entrance exams for rigorous schools, the shame based approach to race (“be less white!”), the increase in false accusations of racism at every turn (recent Smith college incident), claiming that “show your math work” is racist...I guess you would immediately tar me with claims of white fragility. That’s fine.

+1. It just comes to a point when nothing is ever their own fault, and racism is to blame for everything, and you all privileged people should just hand over your taxes and donation checks and shut up and suck it up. It gets really old.

+100. Most counterproductive thing to racial equality IMO has been this crap.

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Anonymous wrote:Go ahead and try to create a “PTO tax” and see how that works out. DC Council flirted with the idea of taking PTO funds from NW schools and giving them to poor schools. Parents made it clear their funding of the PTO would stop immediately and contributions a would be in-kind instead. Parents who are already paying their fair share in taxes expect the money they spend to benefit their own children to do just that. Not to be used for a Robinhood effort.

The problem with this argument is that many, many school districts prohibit this kind of fundraising by individual PTOs. Having one school raise 100k while another does not even have a PTO is clearly an issue. A redistribution of a portion of funds would make good sense. Or a program with a partner school to build long-term bonds.

The result would be parents hop the border to Moco or squeeze for private

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Anonymous wrote:I have become, and I hate to admit it, increasingly hostile to woke politics. Not because I don’t believe in racist equality, but because so many obnoxious fux are trying to shove half baked policies down my throat. Cancelling AP classes, cancelling entrance exams for rigorous schools, the shame based approach to race (“be less white!”), the increase in false accusations of racism at every turn (recent Smith college incident), claiming that “show your math work” is racist...I guess you would immediately tar me with claims of white fragility. That’s fine.

+1. It just comes to a point when nothing is ever their own fault, and racism is to blame for everything, and you all privileged people should just hand over your taxes and donation checks and shut up and suck it up. It gets really old.

+100. Most counterproductive thing to racial equality IMO has been this crap.

What was wrong with the status quo? It worked fine for me growing up and I don't think we should change anything just because of wokeness.

Now what's this about a podcast? I think I'm fairly nice and won't apologize for being white.

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Anonymous wrote:I have become, and I hate to admit it, increasingly hostile to woke politics. Not because I don’t believe in racist equality, but because so many obnoxious fux are trying to shove half baked policies down my throat. Cancelling AP classes, cancelling entrance exams for rigorous schools, the shame based approach to race (“be less white!”), the increase in false accusations of racism at every turn (recent Smith college incident), claiming that “show your math work” is racist...I guess you would immediately tar me with claims of white fragility. That’s fine.

+1. It just comes to a point when nothing is ever their own fault, and racism is to blame for everything, and you all privileged people should just hand over your taxes and donation checks and shut up and suck it up. It gets really old.

+100. Most counterproductive thing to racial equality IMO has been this crap.

What was wrong with the status quo? It worked fine for me growing up and I don't think we should change anything just because of wokeness.

Now what's this about a podcast? I think I'm fairly nice and won't apologize for being white.

To be honest, so much of "wokeness" and "woke politics" is about white folks performing for other white folks (e.g., see how progressive/ aware I am!), and has very little to do with what real, living-breathing black folks (or other persons of color) think. Of course, we're the ones that bear the brunt of the racist backlash, always cannon fodder in wars between different tribes of white folk.

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I have to say, I’m black and I wouldn’t send my kid Ballou either. As far as white people being racist, yes!

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Anonymous wrote:I have become, and I hate to admit it, increasingly hostile to woke politics. Not because I don’t believe in racist equality, but because so many obnoxious fux are trying to shove half baked policies down my throat. Cancelling AP classes, cancelling entrance exams for rigorous schools, the shame based approach to race (“be less white!”), the increase in false accusations of racism at every turn (recent Smith college incident), claiming that “show your math work” is racist...I guess you would immediately tar me with claims of white fragility. That’s fine.

+1. It just comes to a point when nothing is ever their own fault, and racism is to blame for everything, and you all privileged people should just hand over your taxes and donation checks and shut up and suck it up. It gets really old.

+100. Most counterproductive thing to racial equality IMO has been this crap.

Oh, you've discovered equity for all means mediocrity and one size fits all? Yeah, that...

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Anonymous wrote:I wonder where the author's kids go to school.

A bilingual HRCS.

Really? Give me a break. Those aren't exactly bastions of desegregation around here. I wish they were.