Are charter schools predominantly AA?
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Anonymous
| More AAs are moving out of DC, however. More white people are moving in. In a decade, DC will look like it did before White flight. Many schools, Coolidge, Roosevelt, etc were all white. |
Anonymous
| This was pre desegregation. DC will never again look like it did in the 1950s. |
Anonymous
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07:29, the reason Coolidge, Roosevelt were all white, was because blacks weren't allowed to attend the schools. Know your history. Such the case Dunbar and Armstrong had just as many or even more black students enrolled than those two schools combined. Also, Western (Ellington) had a majority black school population. So, again the white flight was done but it never impacted the school population. Get real after, the white flight, the school population ballooned to over 140k students. Which shows more came into our system than departed.
I know y'all are happy to see the prek4 through 5th grade having diversity but don't get too excited. DCPS couldn't handle a majority all-white school system, we are not that progressive. |
Anonymous
This is pp - yes, you are right. So those numbers do reflect the city more or less. That's great! I still feel ambivalent about charters though. |
Anonymous
Better question: why so *few* AAs at YY. |
Anonymous
Of course, you're ignoring the falling poor population as people move out to the suburbs. And the poor are overwhelmingly AA. So while the numerator is increasing, the denominator is also falling. |
Anonymous
While this is true, it ignores the "black flight" which occurred soon after. In the 80s and 90s, the black middle-class moved to the suburbs. By the mid-90s, the only people left in the system were poor people who had no option of leaving the city, and a handful of wealthy whites living in upper NW. |
Anonymous
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What black flight?? We still had quadruple as many housing projects, which is contrary to one's believe were not where poor people lived. It was the city way of offering affordable housing to specific demographic.
Now, if only the poor were left in the system, then prior to this manipulated date, DCPS was booming with successes. You're are not going to bait me into thinking that riches will bring success to DCPS because being poor was not the failure of DCPS. Yes, wealthy whites lived upper northwest but they weren't of the child bearing ages. My neighbors was the owner of Lustine Chevrolet and we didn't live in upper northwest. |
Anonymous
If you believe Gray, DC may be adding housing projects.
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Anonymous
Probably because so few AAs are interested in learning Chinese, and a far smaller percentage of AAs applied as compared to others. Again, pure statistics. |
Anonymous
YY is 48% AA, that is a higher percentage than any other immersion school. Why are people so quick to jump on YY? |
Anonymous
My family was/is neither poor nor white. You assume that all the Black middle class left the city. You are mistaken. My family was not an only. |
Anonymous
| Many middle and upper class AA had left the city along with the whites during the atrocious and "white flight" era but in the last few years have been moving back into the city. |
Anonymous
many middle and upper class people (all colors of people) left the city in the post 1960s--especially after the late 1980s and 1990s, when the city was a horrendous mess. People who had the means to live elsewhere did. Now, DC is re-urbanizing. Demographics are not only about race, but also about class. |
Anonymous
Not everyone is even half bright. |