Creative Minds - Unified Lottery?

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Anonymous wrote:I see everyone remarking in the "great scores" and great rating, but I'm not sure what measures they're referring to. I don't see any scores as this school is too new.

http://greatergreatereducation.org/post/19691/dcs-most-diverse-charter-schools/

Here are the diversity scores people are talking about.

People refer to the good score academically performing not related to diversity , where can that be gauged?

The PCSB does not have that information until a school has been in operation for 3+ years. Anyone who says they are judging on test scores or grades is incorrect. Schools like MV and CM just don't have that info.

However, you can see if they met their goals for the PCSB

http://issuu.com/pcsb/docs/dcpcsb_pmf_2013?e=9803299/5544876

Actually the school has to have a 3rd grade. They can get scores in 2nd year (see IT) if they had a 3rd grade.

They haven't finished their second year yet.

That was my point. PP said you have to be open for 3 years, I was informing her that wasn't the case, you have to have. 3rd grade class for testing, it does not have to be 3 years

[Anonymous]

interesting that CM still has not changed theirbwebsite to teflect their diversity after all this discussion

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:interesting that CM still has not changed theirbwebsite to teflect their diversity after all this discussion

Come on, if you dug up a four month old thread to complain about this, you probably weren't going to CM anyway. Why do you care?

[Anonymous]

actually I am very much interested in the school and given my good wl number I am desperate to like it but keep coming across bothersome anecdotes like the one mentioned in this thread. it makes me wonder. so I am investigating on a variety of fronts.

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DCUM is "investigating"? Seriously?

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uh yeah. considering I know no one at the school it is one tool.

[Anonymous]

I'm a CM parent of an African American child.

The need to update the website photos is on the school's radar and they are planning to make some changes. They can't use current students' pictures because they do not have permission from parents to use the photos in this way. Using any other photos involves purchasing additional stock pictures. Given the administration is current focused on dealing with the very complex logistics involved in trying to finalize plans to potentially move over the summer, updates to the website have taken a back seat for now.

All this to say, the fact that the changes weren't made immediately, is not a sign that the concerns weren't heard. In my opinion and experience with the school, it's more reflective of the reality that they have a very small administrative team that is juggling running a school, moving a school, holding a lottery, planning for summer school/camp, applying for grants, and probably a million other things I don't know about.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm a CM parent of an African American child.

The need to update the website photos is on the school's radar and they are planning to make some changes. They can't use current students' pictures because they do not have permission from parents to use the photos in this way. Using any other photos involves purchasing additional stock pictures. Given the administration is current focused on dealing with the very complex logistics involved in trying to finalize plans to potentially move over the summer, updates to the website have taken a back seat for now.

All this to say, the fact that the changes weren't made immediately, is not a sign that the concerns weren't heard. In my opinion and experience with the school, it's more reflective of the reality that they have a very small administrative team that is juggling running a school, moving a school, holding a lottery, planning for summer school/camp, applying for grants, and probably a million other things I don't know about.

Thank you for posting.

[Anonymous]

I am the poster who resurrected the thread, thanks for posting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Look, what is the point of questioning their marketing, I seriously doubt it is a subversive and strategic decision. Do people think AA families will go to the website, see the picture, ignore good scores and move on to lower performing school? Probably they will still apply.

Nobody is getting it . because in chocolate city DC, although far less chocolate these days, they have chosen stock photos of multiracial instead of black kids, marketing wise it send a pretty strong message to brown kids and their parents. That message explicit or not is "we don't see you here". Look up implicit bias...and even microagressions like not having a brown kids rep you in the photos of your school become much more clear.
Signed black mom of 3 beautiful multiracial kids.

[Anonymous]

^^i am the one who resurrected the thread to revisit this question. i agree somewhat with what you are saying, but when i looked at the photos, there are actually no photos of Black or White kids--just like black-ish and white-ish and Asian. So someone was misguided in trying to market "diversity." if I had seen some lily White kids and no Black kids, i personally would be more concerned. then again, i am looking for reasons to not like the school!

[Anonymous]

Can we ban the adjective 'lily' before white? It does not give your post any extra merit (and it puts me in a bad mood). Thanks for considering

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i am the poster that wrote it: lily lily lily lily lily lily white! lol!

Merriam Webster: 1lily–white adjective \?li-l?-?hw?t, -?w?t\
: very white

: completely without fault or blame : morally pure

: consisting entirely or mostly of white people

it was meant to give a visual.

lily lily lily lily lily white!

[Anonymous]

But that is not true.

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Anonymous wrote:Look, what is the point of questioning their marketing, I seriously doubt it is a subversive and strategic decision. Do people think AA families will go to the website, see the picture, ignore good scores and move on to lower performing school? Probably they will still apply.

Nobody is getting it . because in chocolate city DC, although far less chocolate these days, they have chosen stock photos of multiracial instead of black kids, marketing wise it send a pretty strong message to brown kids and their parents. That message explicit or not is "we don't see you here". Look up implicit bias...and even microagressions like not having a brown kids rep you in the photos of your school become much more clear.
Signed black mom of 3 beautiful multiracial kids.

There was no school when the website was designed. It was literally 6 people sitting around a living room.