DC White flight - what will it mean for education?
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Anonymous
| Meh. Life will go on. |
Anonymous
| The article says that Montgomery County and Arlington lost white residents too, would you like to speculate about those schools? |
Anonymous
Most whites believe that those other groups don’t contain the best or brightest. See how DCUM uses “white” as a proxy for UMC. If you’re really European but not Anglo, then you must be aware of this racism yourself, because it’s rampant in Europe also. Or are you just pretending it doesn’t exist? |
Anonymous
Hello. DC did not defund the police MPD has a half a billion dollar budget, and Murial Bowser asking for more. |
Anonymous
Are you only concerned about white flight? |
Anonymous
You are arguing that DCPS should prioritize a single demographic out of equality?! Huh. |
Anonymous
This is the DCPS forum. |
Anonymous
+1 I read the article and just knew someone was going to create a thread that talked about the "white flight" without mention of the decrease in other demos. I am also greatly enjoying the anecdotal replies saying how many people moved to close in suburbs. Of course, the article makes clear that this white population decline occurred in close in counties as well: "Many of the region’s close-in suburbs also lost White residents at a much higher rate than previously, including Montgomery County, Md. as well as Fairfax and Arlington counties" But by all means, DCUM, please proceed and do that DCUM thing you do. |
Anonymous
Not the poster to whom you are replying, but your response makes no sense. The usual DCUM crowd fixated on OP's half baked post to illustrate that the oft repeated concerns about DC schools are proved to be correct based on the population decline. Then we got the anecdotal evidence of all the people who moved to Arlington and Montgomery counties for better schools. I think what the poster to whom you replied was pointing out was that the theory doesn't work because the suburbs with "better" schools also saw population declines so that would likely indicate that the main driver for the decline wasn't schools. |
Anonymous
| Thanks Charles Allen! Just keep shoveling millions to useless violence interrupters. People are voting with their feet. |
Anonymous
I realize you asked this flippantly, but, YES! |
Anonymous
DC is starving the police department. Bowser desperately wants more money for hiring just to keep the number of police officers at the same level. Meanwhile the DC Council diverts the police money to more violence interrupters instead. |
Anonymous
That's what Europeans do best... |
Anonymous
Usually I am on DCUM castigating the casual racism of posters. In this case I am going to argue your virtual signaling blindness is getting in the way of facts. People use "white" as a placeholder for UMC and "black" as a placeholder for FARMs because the DC data supports those as reasonable proxies. I don't think anyone who uses those words that way fails to understand their are FARMs white families and UMC black ones. But in DC there are on the whole very few white FARMs families and the poverty rate amongst black families in DC is very high especially against all other demos. There's an ongoing battle on Nextdoor about people who send out lookouts for people who committed crimes and describe hat, hair color, shirt, pants, shoes, car and don't mention the race of the person. When people point out the absurdity of failing to describe the only factor that cannot be changed, the woke police argue it is not ok to describe race. (Never mind that by assuming the perpetrator is black they are showing their own bias). I am betting, PP, that you are on the side of people who think it is wrong to cite the race in a post purporting to be a "look out for" post? TL: DR It isn't racist to say "black" or "white" if the population about which you speak is mostly black or white. |
Anonymous
MD and VA are also losing white populations. They both have Republican governors. Not to let the "facts" get in your way or anything. |