Segregation in Charter Schools

[Anonymous]

I'm not a Key parent but we are in-boundary for Hardy. While I don't know anyone who wants "a MS option with fewer blacks," (honestly, where do you think you're living? early 60s Mississippi?) I do know plenty of in-boundary parents who would like a middle school that's well-run and offers a curriculum appropriate for children who are on track for advanced math and foreign languages. Needless to say, kids of all races would benefit from these opportunities. Hardy doesn't offer them, though, so it's not a real option for us.

Is the curriculum for Hardy different than the curriculum for Deal? If so, in which specific areas?

(and if not, how can it be that children matriculating from Key are markedly more advanced than children matriculating from Janney/Lafayette/Murch, thereby requiring math that is more advanced?)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

I'm not a Key parent but we are in-boundary for Hardy. While I don't know anyone who wants "a MS option with fewer blacks," (honestly, where do you think you're living? early 60s Mississippi?) I do know plenty of in-boundary parents who would like a middle school that's well-run and offers a curriculum appropriate for children who are on track for advanced math and foreign languages. Needless to say, kids of all races would benefit from these opportunities. Hardy doesn't offer them, though, so it's not a real option for us.

Is the curriculum for Hardy different than the curriculum for Deal? If so, in which specific areas?

(and if not, how can it be that children matriculating from Key are markedly more advanced than children matriculating from Janney/Lafayette/Murch, thereby requiring math that is more advanced?)

At the Hardy open house I attended, the assistant principal said that a few (I think he said 1 or 2) kids who were on track for advanced math left Hardy during the day to take math elsewhere. My understanding is that many children at Deal take advanced math, so it's offered in-house. This may partly be a function of Deal being a much larger school, but the general comparison of children arriving with basic and below-basic skills at Hardy vs. Deal does not breed confidence that Hardy is set to handle kids who arrive with advanced skills.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:KIPP targets low income children with an intense program focused on discipline and long days (home-help built into the school day). Not to mention lots of chants. I am not sure it is a black/white thing. Are there lots of high income black kids in KIPP do you think?

I can't vouch for the exact number of middle and high income families whose children attend KIPP, but yes, we are there along with the few white and mixed race families.

This must be the Benning Road Campus. There are no whites at the Shaw campus. They are all children of color-different ethic backgrounds but all children of color. Well except for 1 or 2 hispanics.

Time out for a question:

Are Hispanics not "of color"? If not, who exactly is "of color"? I thought "of color" referred to anyone who wanted to designate themselves non-white, without resorting to negative language. (Focused on what someone IS as opposed to focusing on what someone is NOT.)

[Anonymous]

White Hispanic: racially white and of Hispanic descent
White" has a "Not Hispanic or Latino" and a "Hispanic or Latino" component