Ward 6 Elementary Schools

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Would it be okay if I said that i would br disappointed in the event that DCPS was to hire a black person as the next principal at Brent? Or would that be blatantly racist because i refused to consider that person on his or her own merits, including education, experience and character?

And this is why it is hard to be a minority at brent.

Do you fimd logical thought difficult post-lobotomy?

Because I'm a minority and find being at Brent hard makes you think I had a brain transplant?

[Anonymous]

http://www.wisegeekhealth.com/what-is-a-lobotomy.htm

[Anonymous]

PP, please go back and read 19:31 on page 2, wherein that poster expressed her disappointment that LT hired a "White person."

[Anonymous]

Note that 19:31 didn't say she thought the new white principal at LT was in any way unqualified -- she said she thought it sent a "bad message."

Principal appointments don't occur in a vacuum; at a school with a rep for tension between OOB (predominantly black) families and IB (predominantly white) families, a new principal's ethnicity is not necessarily an irrelevant detail.

Grappling openly with the social consequences of race is not racism.

[Anonymous]

Sorry, hiring a well-qualified principal with parental input through the selection process established by DCPS does not send a bad message simply because that person happens to be whote. Also, any so-called tensions which may have existed at LT are not simply issue of race. You had a principal who, rightly or wrongly, was perceived by many as being unwelcoming, if not overtly hostile, to IB families. Yes, while it's true that most of these families were white gentrifiers, it's also true that she was more than willing to turn a blind eye to PG County address cheaters whose families still had roots in the community. In the end it's an issue of community and school culture. There is a serious problem when families don't support their neighborhood elementary school, which can have a domino effect post PK through at least middle school.. Finally, race is not synonymous with ethnicity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Would it be okay if I said that i would br disappointed in the event that DCPS was to hire a black person as the next principal at Brent? Or would that be blatantly racist because i refused to consider that person on his or her own merits, including education, experience and character?

And this is why it is hard to be a minority at brent.

Do you fimd logical thought difficult post-lobotomy?

Because I'm a minority and find being at Brent hard makes you think I had a brain transplant?

I'm sorry that you find being at Brent hard. I'm not at that school. I'm a minority at another school and I also find it hard. I wish there was a way for majority people to acknowledge that things can be hard for minorities and not be so quick to dismiss them. I find comfort in thinking that it comes from a heightened sense of defensiveness and from a sense that if that is true, then my truth can't also be true. I don't mean for this to sound patronizing. I just felt for the poster who was trying to be honest about her/his discomfort and then found myself also feeling for the poster who asked if she'd had a lobotomy and then feeling for all of us reading it.

[Anonymous]

PP, why do you find it hard to be a minority at Brent?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Brent is wonderful. A really strong school. Unfortunately the MS situation peals off a huge portion of the students for 5th grade so the test scores are dragged down. Before you correct me, I'm sure that there are some weak 3rd and 4th graders in the pack as well, but I can't imagine that most of the 5th graders leaving doesn't hurt.

Maury is a great school too. Such a wonderful feeling, strong principal, awesome parents.

Ludlow-Taylor is really turning the corner and the new principal is helping. I was one of those who was disappointed they hired a White person, thought it sent a bad message, but I've met her a couple of times now and have been impressed. With the renovation and already solid test scores, it's in good shape.

I love JO Wilson and I love the principal. Look for lots of great things going on there.

Tyler Spanish, SWS, Logan already fabulous resources in the community. Miner is getting huge kudos for the new principal and the early childhood classrooms. Maybe some momentum to stay and diversify it some?

Tyler Regular and Payne are doing an admirable job in the face of a lot of poverty and life problems. It's not an easy task, to be sure.

I don't know enough about Amidon-Bowen to weigh in. Walker-Jones has so much going for it, but the projects right there and poverty level are difficult hurdles to overcome.

So much going on in Ward 6 and so much of it because of parent involvement. Van Ness will be the next recipient of a whole lot of parent hours going to make a school better for every child.

I miss Word Salad! I would love to see Eastern continue its upward movement. Viva Ward 6!

These are only Hill Schools - you've left out Seaton and Walker Jones.

second, enough with Word Salad already. How many times a day are you going to post the same thing. It's getting old.

with such a lengthy assessment of ward 6 schools, why the omission of Watkins?

[Anonymous]

^^^^ Oh no, PP you just had to ask. Take cover! Fire in the Hole!

[Anonymous]

Watkins is a Ward 9 school. That's why.