Are charter schools predominantly AA?
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Anonymous
| The scales are about to tip, to where AAs are no longer 50% of DC's populace. |
Anonymous
That's an answer to the wrong question. The correct question is what is the demography of the school-aged children? |
Anonymous
| OP, give DC 10 more years until you send your kids to public school here. Until then, there are just too many Black people for you OP. and honestly, I would not feel safe with you and your kids in school with my family anyway. Bigots scare us. Please wait a decade when you'll be in much better company because DC will be full of people like you, and far fewer white people like me who have actually enjoyed the diversity for the decades we've lived here. |
Anonymous
Wow, I am quite pleased at these numbers! Does not reflect the city as a whole but still more diverse than I expected. |
Anonymous
WTH are you talking about? I got a call once because we had used all the money on our child school lunch accout and were down 2$. the call was addressed to parents or guardian of XY, name and last name of the child, period, there was no reference to race or anything else. and we paid the morning after. maybe if you pay promptly what you owe, you would not receive 3 calls per week per child |
Anonymous
How does it not reflect the city? Pretty darn close to me. |
Anonymous
| Why so many asian in yu ying |
Anonymous
Great question. I can't figure that out either. |
Anonymous
Indeed. Perhaps PP means that Latinos and Asians are over represented in some schools, but it is obvious that language immersion schools are going to attract more of the people with deep links to the language in question. |
Anonymous
Maybe because they teach Chinese |
Anonymous
Not if it's supposed to be lottery where "deep links to the language" aren't supposed to matter. |
Anonymous
Unless more Asians apply to Yu Ying, which is probable given that they have deep links to the language. |
Anonymous
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Why so many Asians at Yu Ying? Seems like a ridiculous question.
Why so many AAs at Roots (no blonde swedish kids with an interest in European history)? Why so many kids with disabilities at St. Colettas (and not so many 120 IQ athletes)? Really? It's because of the proportions of who applies to those schools. Those schools are specialized and therefore draw a disproportionately high number of applicants looking for that specialization, which, even with a blind lottery would also show up as a matter of pure statistics. |
Anonymous
The 2 Asian families I know who send their kids to YY Have no connection to Chinese at all. But, at least one friend told me she did factor the school's demographics into the decision to send her kids there. |
Anonymous
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Even if the DC populace becomes less AA it doesn't equate that the school population will reflect a change. One white couple can't cimpare to the hispanic couple with bearing school age children. Also, the multi generational scene of AAs as native Washingtonians have a strong advantage for years/decades to come.
It would require 1,000 white children year entering consecutively for at least 4 years in prek4 and staying beyond 3rd/5th grade to make a dent. It is not going to happen. More whites with less children doesn't compare with less black with more children. |