84% of DC charter students are AA?

[Anonymous]

I'm sorry, but what's a snowflake? Other than the smallest individual meteorological unit of a snow event that's identifiable to the human eye, I'm afraid I don't understand the significance...

Your precious little snowflake, i.e. your child who is unique and special (usually more special than all the other kids, of course).

And to PP re improving all the schools. Yes, certainly, I'm not suggesting reverse discrimination. But, lets make the east of the park schools as good as Mann before dumping any more special programs or funds into Mann etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The dirty secret of school reform is that it's the fundamental demographics that are at issue--we can tinker around the edges, but the schools aren't going to be fixed by Rhee or anyone else so long as lingering historical racism sees to it that public elementary schools have upwards of 90% of children living below the poverty line.

PP, just wanted to add, obviously that doesn't mean we shouldn't do everything we can to staunch the bleeding in the short-term. Just raises my hackles when suburban folks talk about "the problems of DC's poor" as though they have nothing to do with the problem. After all, while these poor folks may live 1/4 mile down the road, there's a state line between us, so it has nothing to do with me. These are the region's poor, and for historical reasons, the District has been the dumping ground for them.

The (white) suburban folks "dumped" the poor (black) folks in the District? Huh? Nobody had a choice in the matter?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The dirty secret of school reform is that it's the fundamental demographics that are at issue--we can tinker around the edges, but the schools aren't going to be fixed by Rhee or anyone else so long as lingering historical racism sees to it that public elementary schools have upwards of 90% of children living below the poverty line.

PP, just wanted to add, obviously that doesn't mean we shouldn't do everything we can to staunch the bleeding in the short-term. Just raises my hackles when suburban folks talk about "the problems of DC's poor" as though they have nothing to do with the problem. After all, while these poor folks may live 1/4 mile down the road, there's a state line between us, so it has nothing to do with me. These are the region's poor, and for historical reasons, the District has been the dumping ground for them.

The (white) suburban folks "dumped" the poor (black) folks in the District? Huh? Nobody had a choice in the matter?

No, they abandoned them for the suburbs so they didn't have to send their children to school with AA children. Lest the middle-class AA families skate on this one, they too abandoned the poor in the exact same way. The only significant differences are that one began in the mid 50's in reaction to Brown v. Board of Ed and those families went to FFX and MoCo. The second began in the late 60's/early 70's galvanized by the assassination of Martin Luther King and those families moved to Prince George's County.