MD public schools are segregated
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Anonymous
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/report-half-of-black-students-in-maryland-attend-segregated-schools/2013/04/18/9097c29a-a83e-11e2-8302-3c7e0ea97057_story.html
"More than half of Maryland’s black students attend schools where the vast majority of students are nonwhite and poor, according to a report released Thursday that documents intensifying segregation patterns in the state’s public schools over two decades. Fifty-four percent of Maryland’s black students were enrolled in schools where at least 90 percent of students were members of racial and ethnic minorities in 2010, up from about a third in 1989." |
Anonymous
| lol, I always read the WaPo comments section to these kinds of articles and then wish I hadn't. |
Anonymous
| The Chevy Chase Elementary parent is going to make an appearance to correct the record and tell us that CCES is really, really diverse in 3 ... 2..... 1 ..... |
Anonymous
| Those statistics are misleading because MoCo schools have become much higher minoroty all around. I would bet there are fewer causcasion students attending schools that are majority caucasion too. Not saying there is no issue but just that those numbers mean very little. |
Anonymous
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From the article:
"Nearly all of the more than 400 schools in Maryland that were 99 percent or 100 percent minority were in Prince George’s or Baltimore City, according to a separate analysis by The Washington Post of federal enrollment data. A handful of schools were in Montgomery and Baltimore counties." Well, the problem with this article is that the population of PG County and Baltimore City is majority minority. I'm not sure that you can say the schools are segregated. It's more like the schools reflect the local population. I hate that the article implies something sinister, as if this is by design. It seems to me there is more of an issue of self-segregation on the part of all races. I would add that I think the statistics about low-income have to do with the fact that the higher income people who live in both of those districts, PG and Baltimore City, tend to send their kids to private schools. I would also add that I don't think it is true that the underperformance of those schools has to do with financial resources. I believe the amount per-child spent in PG County is the same, if not more, than the per-child amount spent in Montgomery County. Basically, articles like this I think are somewhat misleading and offer no solutions to the problem of underperforming schools in PG or Baltimore. |
Anonymous
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It also says...
In Montgomery County, where white enrollment decreased from nearly two-thirds of school rolls in 1989 to 35 percent by 2010, about one in four Latino or African American students is enrolled in an intensely segregated school. For Montgomery County, mid-county most of the MPDU housing are intertwined in the neighborhoods, they don't have the self segregation issue as much. But down county is it a big issue. Segregation is not good even if it is self segregation. |
Anonymous
| PP makes some interesting points, but it's still true they are highly segregated. You can test for this by choosing a MoCo school with a majority of black or hispanic students, then asking on this forum "tell me about X school," and wait for the negative responses by the presumably majority white DCUM respondents. |
Anonymous
Sorry, when I was typing I was referring to the PP 2 posts up, not the one right above. |
Anonymous
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I'm the 11:29 PP. I am not really familiar with MCPS. I lived in Baltimore City and currently live in PG County. And frankly, my observation is that schools in both Balt. City and PG are going to be majority AA because the population is majority AA. I don't think there are any schools in either of those districts that *aren't* majority AA. That's not bad or good. It's just a plain fact of the population demographics of those districts. So I'm not sure what the point of the article is. Those schools aren't majority minority because of some sinister plan to force segregation.
The issue of how those schools perform is separate and more complicated. |
Anonymous
| De facto segregation is still segregation. |
Anonymous
| Well, shall we try bussing? That's always a good solution... |
Anonymous
We do that - it's called Magnet Schools. |
Anonymous
Ha! |
Anonymous
Shall we throw our hands into the air and say there's nothing we can do? That doesn't work well, in my experiences. |