Eliot-Hines Middle School

[Anonymous]

It actually blows me!!! When someone disagrees with some posters, all of sudden it is a cruel joke or an idiot of no consequences. You better get a grip of it real fast or your middle-school years as a parent will not be pleasant. Your child will probably have an uneventful time but you DP will become the bull's eye of many peoples wrath.

How white is your ivory tower???

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So why is it that anybody even keeps posting here? My best guess: someone - not a parent, much less an Eliot-Hine parent, most likely not a Capitol Hill Resident, possibly not even someone from DC - is getting a kick out of being entertained here.

There you have it. I think a lot of posters are falling for a really cruel joke.

I don't think anyone's falling for the joke. I think everyone's watching the trainwreck and munching their popcorn.

[Anonymous]

Yeah, rubbernecking here.

[Anonymous]

Do you think the crazy E-H poster the crazy move to arlington poster are one in the same?

[Anonymous]

I don't think so. The crazy in this thread is epic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It actually blows me!!! When someone disagrees with some posters, all of sudden it is a cruel joke or an idiot of no consequences. You better get a grip of it real fast or your middle-school years as a parent will not be pleasant. Your child will probably have an uneventful time but you DP will become the bull's eye of many peoples wrath.

How white is your ivory tower???

Wait a minute. Whatever the crazy poster is doing here is not disagreeing. It is hate speech and threatening people. Big difference.

[Anonymous]

Characteristic #1, which is common among whites they loop everyone together.

[Anonymous]

ESL?

[Anonymous]

PWT? PITA??

[Anonymous]

NWA?

[Anonymous]

Okay, so I'm late to the party and this conversation may have gone permanently off the rails. Nevertheless ...

I'm still interested in reasons for the hostility AA parents have for possible incoming white students. It seems impossible that parents of current E-H students are happy with the status quo. Yes, an influx of middle class kids is bound to change the school's emphasis. Yes, newbie parents of all stripes can be annoying. But how can you argue with a straight face that it's better to keep things as is?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Okay, so I'm late to the party and this conversation may have gone permanently off the rails. Nevertheless ...

I'm still interested in reasons for the hostility AA parents have for possible incoming white students. It seems impossible that parents of current E-H students are happy with the status quo. Yes, an influx of middle class kids is bound to change the school's emphasis. Yes, newbie parents of all stripes can be annoying. But how can you argue with a straight face that it's better to keep things as is?

Don't lump all of the E-H parents together; there's a large segment that wants the school to flourish. Diversity isn't a bad thing and we'll gladly embrace it. Some are miffed at the suggestion that 'only' diversity will make things better. We should have a top notch school regardless of the population because ALL of our children deserve it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Okay, so I'm late to the party and this conversation may have gone permanently off the rails. Nevertheless ...

I'm still interested in reasons for the hostility AA parents have for possible incoming white students. It seems impossible that parents of current E-H students are happy with the status quo. Yes, an influx of middle class kids is bound to change the school's emphasis. Yes, newbie parents of all stripes can be annoying. But how can you argue with a straight face that it's better to keep things as is?

That's the whole point of the last page: That hostility is some sick joke made up by someone who likes all the drama that you're about to resurrect by asking exactly that question. In fact, I actually one if one and the same person is doing precisely that. Entertaining, or annoying whatever the point of view, but nothing to do with Eliot-Hine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Okay, so I'm late to the party and this conversation may have gone permanently off the rails. Nevertheless ...

I'm still interested in reasons for the hostility AA parents have for possible incoming white students. It seems impossible that parents of current E-H students are happy with the status quo. Yes, an influx of middle class kids is bound to change the school's emphasis. Yes, newbie parents of all stripes can be annoying. But how can you argue with a straight face that it's better to keep things as is?

Anonymous wrote:That's the whole point of the last page: That hostility is some sick joke made up by someone who likes all the drama that you're about to resurrect by asking exactly that question. In fact, I actually one if one and the same person is doing precisely that. Entertaining, or annoying whatever the point of view, but nothing to do with Eliot-Hine.

It's a little naive to think that one poster on DCUM is the only unhinged race-baiter. The whole DC region is filled with permutations of angry ethnic attitudes (black, white, etc). The race-baiter(s) on this thread may or may not be a stake-holder at EH. But the angry and aggressive paranoia is going to be found (in varying degrees) at EH, just as it is currently found at Stuart Hobson, Jefferson, Maury, Watkins, Brent, etc . . . Instead of challenging the legitimacy of race baiters, it may be best to draw people out and see if there is a kernel of truth to what different people are saying. If you think it is completely unfounded, then let a conversation lay it bare. Either way, it is a fact of life in DC and if you are interested in Eliot Hine, or any other institution in DC, then you better get used to it.

[Anonymous]

What you portray as a reality, I claim, is largely a construct. Before we enrolled our then pretty much only white child at one of the schools PP enumerates, I heard of these "feelings" and fears that black parents supposedly have against some white take-over. I'm possibly among the most naive people on the planet but I truly found none of that. I found nothing but warm hugs all around. Maybe I missed someone angrily crawling into a hidden corner I don't know about and is now darting back at me with those repressed feelings.
More likely, it's a continued ploy to get back at Rhee and the supposed mess she left, including her second in command, black as she may be. Keeping DCPS just the way it was will be the very best way to prove these reformers wrong. It's probably the very same people who have nothing but disdain for downtown because DCPS actually does something, goes around and checks on people, and doesn't just sit uselessly and disorganized. We can continue to take these people seriously and keep engaging them on places like DCUM, or we can move on and let them pout.