There are images of 21 people in today's DCPS Welcome Back email...

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Well, well, well, how the turntables...

Or "tables turn". Try proof reading before submitting.

for all intensive purposes, it means the same thing

you could of tried being less of jerk!!!1

I think you meant intents and purposes.

Way to table the turns!

Why are the smiley faces only yellow and green?! Where are the white ones!!?? Where?!!!? WHERE!!!???!!!

LOL!! Literally!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well, well, well, how the turntables...

Or "tables turn". Try proof reading before submitting.

for all intensive purposes, it means the same thing

you could of tried being less of jerk!!!1

I think you meant intents and purposes.

at first you just peaked my interest, but now your really annoying me alot! so what if my posts are chock full of "errors" persay? you are worried about bad grammar on this site and are trying to nip it in the butt or something?

You need to loose the grammatical errors.

Priceless! You call out grammatical error with a giant spelling error. Lol!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well, well, well, how the turntables...

Or "tables turn". Try proof reading before submitting.

for all intensive purposes, it means the same thing

you could of tried being less of jerk!!!1

I think you meant intents and purposes.

at first you just peaked my interest, but now your really annoying me alot! so what if my posts are chock full of "errors" persay? you are worried about bad grammar on this site and are trying to nip it in the butt or something?

You need to loose the grammatical errors.

Priceless! You call out grammatical error with a giant spelling error. Lol!

Not PP, but I figured that was intentional.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:White people are so embarrassing sometimes.

-white person

+1
Good grief

[Anonymous]

I think this sends a clear message what the priority is for the city

It's also why most white families leave by late elementary school unless they are WOTP, going private or get lucky with the lottery

[Anonymous]

You guys are being pretty hard on OP, who is oppressed now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think this sends a clear message what the priority is for the city

It's also why most white families leave by late elementary school unless they are WOTP, going private or get lucky with the lottery

Bye fragile, entitled white person!! Hope our kids are never classmates while you’re using DCPS for free daycare.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think this sends a clear message what the priority is for the city

It's also why most white families leave by late elementary school unless they are WOTP, going private or get lucky with the lottery

Bye fragile, entitled white person!! Hope our kids are never classmates while you’re using DCPS for free daycare.

lol Chocolate city is over it's only a matter of time before this city finally becomes the world class capitol it deserves

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think this sends a clear message what the priority is for the city

It's also why most white families leave by late elementary school unless they are WOTP, going private or get lucky with the lottery

Bye fragile, entitled white person!! Hope our kids are never classmates while you’re using DCPS for free daycare.

lol Chocolate city is over it's only a matter of time before this city finally becomes the world class capitol it deserves

Oh world class to you means white? Nice try troll. Don’t you have a klan rally to go to? MAGA!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think this sends a clear message what the priority is for the city

It's also why most white families leave by late elementary school unless they are WOTP, going private or get lucky with the lottery

Bye fragile, entitled white person!! Hope our kids are never classmates while you’re using DCPS for free daycare.

lol Chocolate city is over it's only a matter of time before this city finally becomes the world class capitol it deserves

Oh world class to you means white? Nice try troll. Don’t you have a klan rally to go to? MAGA!

NP. Interesting. Please name two world class cities in Africa. I *think* I can name two, but I doubt you can.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sound like CMI website two years ago with no black kids present.

Which I'm sure was noticed, commenting on, and (perhaps for the next year), adjusted.

[Anonymous]

Jee. Zus. Christ.

The fact that OP and others are willing to put up even a small fight about this shows such fragility, such lack of empathy, and such intolerance for societal change or flexibility. ONE publication that represents all non-white kids and you feel the need to raise this as an "issue" that offends you and speculate as to what it means for your white, and as such, tremendously advantaged kid? I guess you're motivated by a sense of commitment to your child, which is fine because we all are and should be, but in reality this point/attitude is far more detrimental to society as a whole than it is to your kid (which is to say: it isn't, at all.).

This is not the hill to die on. Get some perspective.

I say this as a white parent with a white child who attended a DCPS where s/he was the ONLY white kid in the class for four years. We talked about it. A lot. We hoped this would give our child a more nuanced, color blind view of the way the world should work. In some ways it did. But you know that? The world doesn't yet work like that, and that's a shame. Our child knows that the kids from that school were on the whole poorer, and had more disadvantages brought on my systemic and generational poverty. Can s/he articulate that? Not entirely. But s/he knows that's the world we live in, and has some growing perspective that we shouldn't have to live in that world. So how do we change it? A very small step is by WELCOMING emails like this that flip the script that has gotten us into such a problem; if you're challenging that, you're part of the problem.

Not "seeing themself" in ONE email, or 10 (that let's get real, they don't even see) isn't going to do one bit of lasting damage to your child. Of course make sure your child feels part of their school community, but don't disproportionally link this to that.

Yuck.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think this sends a clear message what the priority is for the city

It's also why most white families leave by late elementary school unless they are WOTP, going private or get lucky with the lottery

Bye fragile, entitled white person!! Hope our kids are never classmates while you’re using DCPS for free daycare.

lol Chocolate city is over it's only a matter of time before this city finally becomes the world class capitol it deserves

Oh world class to you means white? Nice try troll. Don’t you have a klan rally to go to? MAGA!

NP. Interesting. Please name two world class cities in Africa. I *think* I can name two, but I doubt you can.

I am from one actually. Maybe you haven’t read the PP and the not-so-subtle innuendo. try again.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Sound like CMI website two years ago with no black kids present.

Which I'm sure was noticed, commenting on, and (perhaps for the next year), adjusted.

CMI was 45% black at the time in one school. Not 15% from a handful of schools representing thousands.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Jee. Zus. Christ.

The fact that OP and others are willing to put up even a small fight about this shows such fragility, such lack of empathy, and such intolerance for societal change or flexibility. ONE publication that represents all non-white kids and you feel the need to raise this as an "issue" that offends you and speculate as to what it means for your white, and as such, tremendously advantaged kid? I guess you're motivated by a sense of commitment to your child, which is fine because we all are and should be, but in reality this point/attitude is far more detrimental to society as a whole than it is to your kid (which is to say: it isn't, at all.).

This is not the hill to die on. Get some perspective.

I say this as a white parent with a white child who attended a DCPS where s/he was the ONLY white kid in the class for four years. We talked about it. A lot. We hoped this would give our child a more nuanced, color blind view of the way the world should work. In some ways it did. But you know that? The world doesn't yet work like that, and that's a shame. Our child knows that the kids from that school were on the whole poorer, and had more disadvantages brought on my systemic and generational poverty. Can s/he articulate that? Not entirely. But s/he knows that's the world we live in, and has some growing perspective that we shouldn't have to live in that world. So how do we change it? A very small step is by WELCOMING emails like this that flip the script that has gotten us into such a problem; if you're challenging that, you're part of the problem.

Not "seeing themself" in ONE email, or 10 (that let's get real, they don't even see) isn't going to do one bit of lasting damage to your child. Of course make sure your child feels part of their school community, but don't disproportionally link this to that.

Yuck.

I like you. I hope we’re friends in real life. People like you makes me love living in DC. OP makes me cringe.

-biracial mom of AA kids