Eliot-Hines Middle School

[Anonymous]

10:26, Wrong!!! I am not a rap artist. Gotcha. But again, it your stereo-typical assertion that an AA's can be of that genre.

[Anonymous]

Here we go again the reference about the influx of students to EH are called middle class kids. Then this reference is we (AA) want to keep it the same. We are recognizing improvements and our small goals are being met.

Are you freaking ridiculous? Do you ALL hear me, the poster said it best. I do believe you whites are believing your own hype and for some reason have brainwashed yourself in being great white saviours to Ward 6 education. NOT!!!

Plain and frankly this is not the one drop rule in regards to what is determined as a better education. I will not stand-by and see Oh! Lord thank God the white people moved in the neighborhood, our schools will be outstanding.

You may tout diversity but a division is your ultimate outcome. Again, one white person is not too many for blacks to handle that is why the lone white person at EH is feeling warm an welcomed. But I do believe when the shoe is on the other foot one too many black people will be an irritant for the new middle class.

Familiarity brings comfort.

[Anonymous]

So, according to this one poster, current parents at EH are okay with how things are going because "[w]e are recognizing improvements and our small goals are being met." I'm guessing that this is not a view shared by most DCPS parents, white or black, at any income level, which explains why the school is woefully underenrolled. I'm sensitive to the charge that whites seem to think that their presence alone will improve a school. But I also think that I have a right to have my kid educated for free at my neighborhood school. If I'm not happy with that school, I have a right, maybe even an obligation, to suggest changes and to work for those changes to occur. The fact that someone was there before me, investing his or her time and effort, does not mean that I should back off, though a little more respect on both sides is in order.

I'm glad I read the thread in any event, because it's helping me get a handle on the push back I see on the ground at my own east of the park school.

[Anonymous]

NO!!! that is not what I am stating. Why is it? That when a school is predominantly AA, it is considered underenrolled. If the same numbers had a percentage of white student, Oooops I mean white middle-classers enrolled. We would be considered progressive and innovative.

The battle is not your but it will be a fight if you think there's going to be this obligation bull-sugar, coming to the forefront. All of sudden it is our white neighbors attending the local school and suggestions are abound. We've been here and our suggestions are all of sudden relegated to chopped liver or spoiled brie cheese.

I don't want you to back off or back up. But back the freaking up for a minute and recognize the fact that familiarity brings comfort. This feces about not being happy and it is a right or a obligation, makes vomit come to my throat. You didn't give a damn about the school when you had an affordable choice and avoidable right not to send your dear child to the neighborhood black school.

What you think and what your believe is not the same and it is pretty evident in the recent posted repsonses. As for the push back, when will you get hint?

The reality tv show characters of Thurston and Lovey Howell meeting up Kunta and Kizzie will be episodic for sure this upcoming school year. Stay tuned.

[Anonymous]

There is a lot of unsubstantiated paranoia on this thread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:NO!!! that is not what I am stating. Why is it? That when a school is predominantly AA, it is considered underenrolled. If the same numbers had a percentage of white student, Oooops I mean white middle-classers enrolled. We would be considered progressive and innovative.

The battle is not your but it will be a fight if you think there's going to be this obligation bull-sugar, coming to the forefront. All of sudden it is our white neighbors attending the local school and suggestions are abound. We've been here and our suggestions are all of sudden relegated to chopped liver or spoiled brie cheese.

I don't want you to back off or back up. But back the freaking up for a minute and recognize the fact that familiarity brings comfort. This feces about not being happy and it is a right or a obligation, makes vomit come to my throat. You didn't give a damn about the school when you had an affordable choice and avoidable right not to send your dear child to the neighborhood black school.

What you think and what your believe is not the same and it is pretty evident in the recent posted repsonses. As for the push back, when will you get hint?

The reality tv show characters of Thurston and Lovey Howell meeting up Kunta and Kizzie will be episodic for sure this upcoming school year. Stay tuned.

Actually, it's considered under-enrolled because it has capacity for 850 students, and only 290 are enrolled. That's 34%. By any definition, 34% is under-enrolled. Worse yet, only 94 of those are in-bounds. That's 11%. That's not even under-enrolled any more, it's a school that needs to be combined or be closed. But you go ahead and keep telling yourself its about ethnicity, not about math or money.

[Anonymous]

Too bad statistics don't mean a thing at this juncture because AA recruits AA and the drawing card will not be the neighborhood whites who have decide to cross threshold. Also to have an OOB number of that percentage definitely defines choice. To have a percentage of parents who selected EH at this junxture only memorializes the commitment of the future. So you see it is only a matter of time that everything will add up. We the public selected EH and it wasn't based on middle class status. But you just come on to EH and be your glowing personality. Let your light shine, let your money do the talking but remember a poor people's campaign will be on you like white on rice.

White people and their need to fight with money and classism. No wonder whites are insulted when they are called PWT. In this case you have made this NWA chuckle.

[Anonymous]

After reading the destructive posts by the Eliot-Hine poster I called the school and spoke with Ms. Young, the Principal. The poster isn’t affiliated with the school at all. She’s working extremely hard to be inclusive of all families in the area. Please stop engaging this person and contact the Principal to schedule a meeting if you’re interested in sending your child there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Too bad statistics don't mean a thing at this juncture because AA recruits AA and the drawing card will not be the neighborhood whites who have decide to cross threshold. Also to have an OOB number of that percentage definitely defines choice. To have a percentage of parents who selected EH at this junxture only memorializes the commitment of the future. So you see it is only a matter of time that everything will add up. We the public selected EH and it wasn't based on middle class status. But you just come on to EH and be your glowing personality. Let your light shine, let your money do the talking but remember a poor people's campaign will be on you like white on rice.

White people and their need to fight with money and classism. No wonder whites are insulted when they are called PWT. In this case you have made this NWA chuckle.

PWT? Is that like PYT?

Pretty white thing, pretty young thing, same difference?

[Anonymous]

10:50, your paranoia is beyond belief. If this is anonymous then how would one know if one is affiliated with the school. Have you heard of keeping your enemies close?

Also, no one is saying NOT TO SEND YOUR CHILD TO EH. That's what you would like for it to be said but no one is going to fall for your throwing of the rock and hiding your hand.

Talk with the principal, I chuckle. As I was fortunate to sit on the panel to select this principal. Again the association and the affiliation is disproven as DCPS reached out to me as a parent and a community member with a proven track record of being pro-active and supportive of DCPS.

It takes all kinds to make this world go around and if a conversation you want then it will be a conversation you shall receive. So go run tell dat, sweetie.

11:00,

Trash and thing are relative in my world, too!!! Shake it like a white girl, sweetie.

I got a number for you to dial how about 1-800-get over it.

[Anonymous]

I kinda wish that DCPS would reach out to the city in regards to EH as they did when it came to Eastern. It was known that the Eastern relaunching project couldn't be left up to a neighborhood group of decision makers. So, DCPS decided to make it a city-wide project and as a result Eastern's relaunch; it truly reflects the city's preference. I think this could be done for EH, merely because Deal is a prime example that the city is attracted to Deal. It is somewhat evident with EH OOB percentage that there's a city attraction to the school and it couldn't survive if it dependent on the shallow portion of the neighborhood to revitalize it.

I think this blog has peaked Ms. Young's interest. So, I would ask Ms. Young to reach out to DCPS and inquire about a city-wide recruitment. You are a former employee of Bell-Multicultural and you can see where diversity is not manufactured but it is reflective of a familiar culture that is warm and inviting without a middle-class sitgma place upon it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Students in the actual feeder elementary schools for Eliot Hine: Tyler, Maury, Miner, Brent, Payne. Very few of these 5th graders go to their designated school, Eliot Hine.

The kids in the upper grades at the aforementioned elementary schools are mostly African American. Yet the parents working on "holding hands" and jumping into Eliot Hine are almost all white (and middle class). It doesn't have to mean anything nefarious is going on, but there is a an overwhelming element of race in play.

There's a risk of conflating race with class, here.

"conflated" poster is on the thread. Hence the crazy.

[Anonymous]

That reminds me didn't Richard Pryor have a comedy album titled "Crazy Ni%%a! So, being called crazy is not all that bad. ROTFL.

[Anonymous]

I feel'ya Mocha Mom and Chocolate Dad. When is the next mtg? Red cup social still on for March 24th? Our motto; Embrace EH.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:10:50, your paranoia is beyond belief. If this is anonymous then how would one know if one is affiliated with the school. Have you heard of keeping your enemies close?

Also, no one is saying NOT TO SEND YOUR CHILD TO EH. That's what you would like for it to be said but no one is going to fall for your throwing of the rock and hiding your hand.

Talk with the principal, I chuckle. As I was fortunate to sit on the panel to select this principal. Again the association and the affiliation is disproven as DCPS reached out to me as a parent and a community member with a proven track record of being pro-active and supportive of DCPS.

It takes all kinds to make this world go around and if a conversation you want then it will be a conversation you shall receive. So go run tell dat, sweetie.

11:00,

Trash and thing are relative in my world, too!!! Shake it like a white girl, sweetie.

I got a number for you to dial how about 1-800-get over it.

Congratulations. You were fortunate enough to select the principal, and after your crazy racist ranting scares off prospective parents and Elliot-Hine stays at 34% capacity for another few years you can thank yourself for getting her fired and getting the school shut down because of underenrollment. Woo-hoo! Aren't you special.