Dumb WaPoo Article on Public Schools
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This is one very superficial article. Public schools have generally failed to integrate because they don't offer an acceptable level of safety to all kids. Kids from tougher neighborhoods growing up with drug addition, sex abuse, prostitution, beatings, etc. act out (oftentimes very violently) in the classroom. Public schools and local governments do not offer real solutions to get these kids help and remove them from the classroom until they get "better" (or get to a foster home). So more affluent families choose to go private or move to the burbs, which is de fact segregation. Yes, all you limo liberals in MoCo, Arlington and Fairfax are de facto economic segregationists, and it's perfectly legal. Everyone in private school in DC or in upper-NW is also a de facto segregationist. I assume these groups include most Post staff. So WaPo, why not write about how you are de facto economic segregationists? Look yourselves in the mirror, please.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/education/wp/2016/05/17/on-the-anniversary-of-brown-v-board-new-evidence-that-u-s-schools-are-resegregating/ |
Anonymous
| Feeling butthurt at being called racist, are you? |
Anonymous
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Is this surprising to anyone
Anyone with means is going to do what is best for their children aka living in the best school district possible away from the poors/ESOLS/blacks/hispanics DC Charter system is white flight Choice in Arlington is white flight AAP in Fairfax is white flight Magnets in MoCo is white flight See a pattern |
Anonymous
. The article didn't call her a racist, it says that schools are re-segregating. Did you actually read it? The problem is real, and it doesn't have a simple solution. Nobody wants to see poor children economically isolated. It's also extremely easy for people without children in the system to point fingers and place blame. Unless you've deliberately enrolled your child in a school you know to be sub-standard when A.) you have better options, and B.) you're doing it for the benefit of under-served children in the school to the detriment of your own child, then you're really just riding around on your high-horse's ass. |
Anonymous
What? You mean Asian flight? |
Anonymous
PP, you fully missed the point. The article falls below the mark for meaningful journalism by failing to find and address root causes. Basically, it's just mumbo jumbo. |
Anonymous
You would make more sense if you substituted "poverty flight" or "blight flight." It's not just whites who care about high-quality schools, upper-income AA families don't want to put their children in low-quality schools either. |
Anonymous
whites and asians are interchangeable silly :-p its all about ses anyway I mean upper income blacks do the same thing |
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and yeah other prior poster I totally agree
I am assuming some of the black posters who call everyone racist don't realize anyone with means is doing the same thing |
Anonymous
Is this true? On DCUM from now on I am to assume whites, Asians and upper income blacks are all white for discussion purposes? |
Anonymous
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Once again, people give black people no credit.
Chargers were founded in DC in the 90s by a movement of black families and black leadership in education. You completely demean the work done by black leadership in this city by the charter movement when you say charters are "white flight" |
Anonymous
| thats how the whiny blacks do it |
Anonymous
Trump, is that you? |
Anonymous
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A little clarification based on one comment: drug addiction and sex abuse are not limited to tougher neighborhoods. They are really much a part of affluent and middle income neighborhoods/families, too.
No one blames anyone for seeking schools in communities that are safe or going to great schools in fair neighborhoods that are not as easy gain admittance. It is time that we understand that not everyone in not so desirable or poor neighborhoods wants to be there but may have lost hope or opportunity. Many parents want good schools and safe communities. Now why people take drugs or abuse children is beyond me and another discussion, but some people still want more for their children. Parents want to go to schools with substantive programs/extracurricular activities and that allow for broader experiences. Visited Exeter Academy once and got an idea why some kids excel or should excel. Fabulous school. As far as races go, they want the same things as others. In reality, some issues are based on classism rather than racism. Some don't realize that there are African American/Black and Hispanic families that make much more than nonminorities in some classrooms. There's a projection that races are blending so it's time we all get along. The better our schools for all are, the less crime and dependency on government will be and a better world/global market we'll have. |
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