Would DCPS be Less Segregated Without Charters?

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Anonymous wrote:So many families would choose the suburbs if it weren't for charters....middle class families are staying in the city more because of charters, even if they can't afford inner Cap Hill or Ward 3.

Right but there are charters where the % low income is way below the overall school age population in DC (YY, LAMB, MV...) -- so how is that helping? In effect these are private schools paid for by taxpayers.

YY 11%, LAMB 24%, MV 28%
my DCPS title 1: 70%

I wasn't aware that very low SES people placed a high value on their children learning Mandarin. And though YY might be "only" 11% Title 1, it is very well integrated, with "whites" making up 31.4% of the student body (vs 34.2% for AA and 19.5% muliracial).

Is that "too white"?

Not too white, just too ridiculous. All this racial integration doesn't result in the kids learning to speak Mandarin. Hint: for that you need actual Chinese speaking kids in the program, lots.

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[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So many families would choose the suburbs if it weren't for charters....middle class families are staying in the city more because of charters, even if they can't afford inner Cap Hill or Ward 3.

Right but there are charters where the % low income is way below the overall school age population in DC (YY, LAMB, MV...) -- so how is that helping? In effect these are private schools paid for by taxpayers.

YY 11%, LAMB 24%, MV 28%
my DCPS title 1: 70%

I wasn't aware that very low SES people placed a high value on their children learning Mandarin. And though YY might be "only" 11% Title 1, it is very well integrated, with "whites" making up 31.4% of the student body (vs 34.2% for AA and 19.5% muliracial).

Is that "too white"?

Not too white, just too ridiculous. All this racial integration doesn't result in the kids learning to speak Mandarin. Hint: for that you need actual Chinese speaking kids in the program, lots.

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+1. I hope the YY haters—even if some of their complaints are legitimate—don’t derail yet another thread. They seem to try to get a dig in whenever they can. It’s not like they’re saying anything new.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes. Absolutely. I live in a gentrifying area (Brookland) and our IB (Burroughs) definitely does not reflect the diversity of the area. Instead, it's like 95% black and 5% white (which is still an increase from the 1% when I moved here 5 years ago). But that 5% is all in the PK3-4 and K grades. Brookland Middle School is 1% white.

Brookland/Ward 5 is surrounded by really good charter schools, and most UMC families here try to get into them. Burroughs, Noyes and Bunker Hill are a last resort. If the charters weren't an option, the neighborhood schools would likely reflect the population more.

What can Burroughs, Noyes and Bunker Hill do to get neighborhood families? I hear great things about these schools and Langdon too. 5% white??? That's Ridiculous. That does not reflect the population of Brookland!!!! What are these schools In Boundary rates??

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So many families would choose the suburbs if it weren't for charters....middle class families are staying in the city more because of charters, even if they can't afford inner Cap Hill or Ward 3.

Right but there are charters where the % low income is way below the overall school age population in DC (YY, LAMB, MV...) -- so how is that helping? In effect these are private schools paid for by taxpayers.

YY 11%, LAMB 24%, MV 28%
my DCPS title 1: 70%

I wasn't aware that very low SES people placed a high value on their children learning Mandarin. And though YY might be "only" 11% Title 1, it is very well integrated, with "whites" making up 31.4% of the student body (vs 34.2% for AA and 19.5% muliracial).

Is that "too white"?

Not too white, just too ridiculous. All this racial integration doesn't result in the kids learning to speak Mandarin. Hint: for that you need actual Chinese speaking kids in the program, lots.

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Off topic because you don't want to see the forest for the trees. Integration shouldn't be the paramount goal of a public school. The school's educational mission should come first.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So many families would choose the suburbs if it weren't for charters....middle class families are staying in the city more because of charters, even if they can't afford inner Cap Hill or Ward 3.

Right but there are charters where the % low income is way below the overall school age population in DC (YY, LAMB, MV...) -- so how is that helping? In effect these are private schools paid for by taxpayers.

YY 11%, LAMB 24%, MV 28%
my DCPS title 1: 70%

I wasn't aware that very low SES people placed a high value on their children learning Mandarin. And though YY might be "only" 11% Title 1, it is very well integrated, with "whites" making up 31.4% of the student body (vs 34.2% for AA and 19.5% muliracial).

Is that "too white"?

Not too white, just too ridiculous. All this racial integration doesn't result in the kids learning to speak Mandarin. Hint: for that you need actual Chinese speaking kids in the program, lots.

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+1. I hope the YY haters—even if some of their complaints are legitimate—don’t derail yet another thread. They seem to try to get a dig in whenever they can. It’s not like they’re saying anything new.

Get a life, post what you want to post to add to the discussion. Controlling rants get one nowhere.

[Anonymous]

^^^Get a life, says the poster who posts on every thread that mentions YY, and never tires of posting the same complaints over and over.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:^^^Get a life, says the poster who posts on every thread that mentions YY, and never tires of posting the same complaints over and over.

I'm not that poster and don't give a hoot about YY. Please post about segregation without charters or start your own thread about YY haters.