ludlow-taylor

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The student body of charters is self-selected, typically around a theme like language, arts, et cetera - similar to magnets. Boundaries make no sense. Whoever is proposing that really doesn't understand the whole concept and premise.

Oh please. The theme has been a quirky, private school type program populated almost entirely by high-SES kids in a zone where most schools serve OOB kids (who are, erm, poor). The concept and premise is well-heeled neighborhood parents with ahead-of-the-curve little kids finding what they want and need, and enough students from low-SES families to add real life flavor, keeping the "public" in public school. Whoever is criticizing this doesn't really understand the lure of the Hill for the best and brightest in town.

Shows how much you know. The majority of charter schools in DC serve low-income, AA families. Think KIPP, Achievement, Friendship, Eagle. Whether or not the Hill attracts the best and the brightest is up for debate.

Think Yu Ying, Basis, Latin - not so low-come any more

Sorry, but you're absolutely wrong when you characterize DC charter schools as you did:

Question: What are the latest charter school demographics?

72% - Low income
8% - English Language Learners
11% - Special Education
83% - African American
12% - Hispanic/Latino
3% - Caucasian
1% - Asian/Pacific Islander
0% - Native American
1% - Other

Source: PCSB

So, yes you could describe YY as a "quirky, private school type program populated almost entirely by high-SES kids," (if 20 percent FARMS is what you mean), but that is far from the norm for DC charter schools.

I think that turning L-T into a charter is an interesting thought, but please do use real facts.

[Anonymous]

demographics are changing

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:demographics are changing

Wasn't that a Bob Dylan tune?

[Anonymous]

Only in your dreams that demographics are changing... 51% of the city population and 95% of the school populaton doesn't have changing to your favorable demographic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Only in your dreams that demographics are changing... 51% of the city population and 95% of the school population doesn't have changing to your favorable demographic.

Come writers and critics
Who prophesize with your pen
And keep your eyes wide
The chance won't come again
And don't speak too soon
For the wheel's still in spin
And there's no tellin' who
That it's namin'
For the loser now
Will be later to win
For the demographics they are a-changin'.

[Anonymous]

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Sorry, but you're absolutely wrong when you characterize DC charter schools as you did:

Question: What are the latest charter school demographics?

72% - Low income
8% - English Language Learners
11% - Special Education
83% - African American
12% - Hispanic/Latino
3% - Caucasian
1% - Asian/Pacific Islander
0% - Native American
1% - Other

Source: PCSB

So, yes you could describe YY as a "quirky, private school type program populated almost entirely by high-SES kids," (if 20 percent FARMS is what you mean), but that is far from the norm for DC charter schools.

I think that turning L-T into a charter is an interesting thought, but please do use real facts.

Where did you get this? Only 3% of chartersare Caucasian? No way that's correct.

[Anonymous]

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Sorry, but you're absolutely wrong when you characterize DC charter schools as you did:

Question: What are the latest charter school demographics?

72% - Low income
8% - English Language Learners
11% - Special Education
83% - African American
12% - Hispanic/Latino
3% - Caucasian
1% - Asian/Pacific Islander
0% - Native American
1% - Other

Source: PCSB

So, yes you could describe YY as a "quirky, private school type program populated almost entirely by high-SES kids," (if 20 percent FARMS is what you mean), but that is far from the norm for DC charter schools.

I think that turning L-T into a charter is an interesting thought, but please do use real facts.

Where did you get this? Only 3% of chartersare Caucasian? No way that's correct.

I got it off the PCSB site, as I mentioned.

http://www.dcpcsb.org/Parents/DC-Charter-School-Factsheet.aspx

Data is from the 2012-13 school year. 3 percent of charter students are Caucasian. Why does this surprise you? Like the other poster you think that the only charter schools in this city are the 5 that get written about on DCUM?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Only in your dreams that demographics are changing... 51% of the city population and 95% of the school population doesn't have changing to your favorable demographic.

Come writers and critics
Who prophesize with your pen
And keep your eyes wide
The chance won't come again
And don't speak too soon
For the wheel's still in spin
And there's no tellin' who
That it's namin'
For the loser now
Will be later to win
For the demographics they are a-changin'.

Brilliant!

[Anonymous]

From what I've heard some AA folk think the Plan is to get all black kids in charters and white people in public school

[Anonymous]

I'm a white guy. Where are "The Plan" meetings? In a room at the Holiday Inn next to the Elders of Zion?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:From what I've heard some AA folk think the Plan is to get all black kids in charters and white people in public school

What would be the point of that?

[Anonymous]

Hilarious. First, the claim was that "The Plan" was to have charters be this secret plot to provide elite exclusive private school education for rich white kids on the taxpayer nickel - and now having been shown that charters are actually serving a huge number of low-SES AA kids, the claim has suddenly switched to being that charters are a secret plot to divert low-SES AA kids out of public schools so that rich white folks can take over the public schools and have them provide elite exclusive private school education on the taxpayer nickel.

Laughing my butt off! I don't know if the PP is intentionally being funny or if the PP is such a wackjob that she doesn't even realize how screwball her conspiracy theories are.

[Anonymous]

Whatever her theories, she doesn't seem to understand that drawing better-off families to struggling public schools can only improve struggling programs, and foster strong new ones. Unless a school is geared toward serving poor and middle-income minority kids, like KIPP, the more "rich" (six-figure earning?) white folks involved, the better for the poor kids also involved. Much much much better.

[Anonymous]

Well that is what being stated by the DCPS officials to the black community. Get real, how is it that there's such dislike and hatred are for whites when they infiltrate the local schools? Don'y worry about our "plan" you need to worry about DCPS plan. The Plan is to get the whites excited about public education in the primary grades only. Education has become a tourist attraction and money bonanza at white peoples' expense. The Rhee and Henderson years has pretty much patent and trademarked this plan. More white tax base money that is helping a black majority run and populated school system. One city, one group punk'd.

[Anonymous]

Omg. This is like Word Sald lite. Could there be two of them?