Jay Mathews Points Readers in Wrong Direction on Top Charters

[Anonymous]

Jay Mathews gives voice to ex-Wilson HS AP teacher Erich Martel on charters and MySchoolDC lottery rigging. Unsubstantiated and bordering on libelous.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/do-some-charters-have-too-many-white-students/2014/11/23/82cf83b0-71a9-11e4-ad12-3734c461eab6_story.html?wprss=rss_Copy%20of%20local-alexandria-social&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Jay Mathews gives voice to ex-Wilson HS AP teacher Erich Martel on charters and MySchoolDC lottery rigging. Unsubstantiated and bordering on libelous.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/do-some-charters-have-too-many-white-students/2014/11/23/82cf83b0-71a9-11e4-ad12-3734c461eab6_story.html?wprss=rss_Copy%20of%20local-alexandria-social&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Yet thought-provoking and worth a deeper dive into data.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Jay Mathews gives voice to ex-Wilson HS AP teacher Erich Martel on charters and MySchoolDC lottery rigging. Unsubstantiated and bordering on libelous.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/do-some-charters-have-too-many-white-students/2014/11/23/82cf83b0-71a9-11e4-ad12-3734c461eab6_story.html?wprss=rss_Copy%20of%20local-alexandria-social&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Yet thought-provoking and worth a deeper dive into data.

What is data going to do? My School handles the lottery.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Jay Mathews gives voice to ex-Wilson HS AP teacher Erich Martel on charters and MySchoolDC lottery rigging. Unsubstantiated and bordering on libelous.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/do-some-charters-have-too-many-white-students/2014/11/23/82cf83b0-71a9-11e4-ad12-3734c461eab6_story.html?wprss=rss_Copy%20of%20local-alexandria-social&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Libelous? Bordering, no. It's bigtime libelous. Martel is apparently laying out some kind of cockamamie scenario wherein there's this vast conspiracy involving the unified lottery and how it's all been rigged and is being gamed.

He'd either better put up some evidence or shut up... (or at least that's hopefully what his attorney is telling him..)

[Anonymous]

What the ever-loving??? He'll ask the schools & myschoolsdc about admissions in a future column?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What the ever-loving??? He'll ask the schools & myschoolsdc about admissions in a future column?

Apparently it's "shoot first, ask questions later..."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What the ever-loving??? He'll ask the schools & myschoolsdc about admissions in a future column?

Apparently it's "shoot first, ask questions later..."

Agreed. This is pathetic. About to break up with the Post.

[Anonymous]

OMG--the explanation is quite simple. If the majority of white high SES families are applying only to the schools listed in the article and in higher numbers (or even equal) to other groups, the odds of white families getting in increases. In other words, white families are overrepresented in the lottery for the schools in question (compared to the overall population). For example, for middle school, my guess is white families in DC are concentrated in BASIS, Latin or Deal. Otherwise, they go private. Hence the high percentages reported in the article.

[Anonymous]

Jay Mathews should get on the phone tomorrow morning to explain himself to the head of every school he mentions and to his Editors. I thought he had better judgement than this article demonstrates.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OMG--the explanation is quite simple. If the majority of white high SES families are applying only to the schools listed in the article and in higher numbers (or even equal) to other groups, the odds of white families getting in increases. In other words, white families are overrepresented in the lottery for the schools in question (compared to the overall population). For example, for middle school, my guess is white families in DC are concentrated in BASIS, Latin or Deal. Otherwise, they go private. Hence the high percentages reported in the article.

And, the "high" percentages cited aren't even all that high. Some of the DCPS ES/MS schools have higher percentage white than what was cited for the charters.

[Anonymous]

Is race/ethnicity even a question on the lottery application?

Poor reporting, Jay. These schools are self-selecting. In the reverse, should we be alarmed that Roots PCS and historically black colleges have very few Caucasian students? They certainly must be kicking out the white kids because the data tells me so.

[Anonymous]

It was Professor Plum that used the rope in the conservatory. Yeah, that's how these schools are sneaking in all those white kids.

Yeah, that's it.

[Anonymous]

It was even reporting. Only one source, my goodness.

[Anonymous]

Jay Matthews is a disaster.

[Anonymous]

Some guy who was fired said he doesn't like when there are white kids at non-upper-northwest school. Good story, bro.