ludlow-taylor

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You all are moving in but you all are not having babies. We will become the One Gay City before we will become the One White City. Case in point David Catania.... You want names, then you should be black and in attendance with the DCPS officials when they make their statements. Many DCPS officials take a gander at the room before they talk. Jus think how Rhee as minority herself would sit in the living rooms of whites and listen to their anecdotal remedies on how to handle the other races. As you see Kaya doesn't even go or even cater to whites in their living rooms.

As poster said that the biggest challenge is assembling the right mix of students. There you have it. What is the right mix?

Look familiarity brings comfort black principal corps, black instructional superintendents, black chancellor, black student population, black mayor and black voters that your white politicians need.

Think about it... How trustworthy are any of these DCPS officials if they say one thing to one room full of people and another thing to a different room full of people? They are deceivers and liars. They need to go.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What keeps ward 3 going is the kids and parents in it -- not DCPS.

The "status quo" is the reform that's existed for the last six years and what the mayor and chancellor are calling to "stay the course."

The only "entrenched establishment" in DCPS is the one that the reformers created when they fired huge numbers of administrative staff, principals and teachers and hired their own kind. Thanks to IMPACT, all teachers know exactly what's expected of them and if they don't measure up, they are fired at the end of the year.

The great majority of teachers are now "effective" according to the standards DCPS reform has set - and still the schools are "failing."

It almost sounds like you're in a time warp -- making the same kind of accusations that the reformers were making when they arrived 6 years ago.

I hope you're right that there is a growing number of pissed off parents outside of ward 3 who want decent DCPS education for their kids in their own neighborhoods. It's my feeling that it's only the parents who can force the city to make changes to benefit your children.

The taxpayers are the city's customers after all. The city should be working for you - not throwing good money after bad while your kids' education suffers (unless you're lucky enough to get a charter or OOB spot and willing and able to haul your kids across town.)

But remember when you organize yourselves, that you're taking on the reformers who have had the power under two very different mayors to make DCPS into the dysfunctional system it is today.

You act as though "reform happened" and "it's already been tried" which is complete BS. Rhee was only there from June 2007 to October 2010, and she met with a huge amount of inertia and resistance, and only a small part of her reform agenda was even put into place. What she found was massive inefficiencies and waste in central office, which she was working on fixing, warehouses full of textbooks that weren't even being distributed, teachers who didn't even know the subject matter they were supposed to be teaching, and lots of other huge problems. Only a tiny portion of those issues were addressed and dealt with, yet here you are pretending "it's already been tried". And most of that proactive agenda has stagnated under Henderson. Those problems still exist, and are still deeply entrenched, my friend.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You all are moving in but you all are not having babies. We will become the One Gay City before we will become the One White City. Case in point David Catania.... You want names, then you should be black and in attendance with the DCPS officials when they make their statements. Many DCPS officials take a gander at the room before they talk. Jus think how Rhee as minority herself would sit in the living rooms of whites and listen to their anecdotal remedies on how to handle the other races. As you see Kaya doesn't even go or even cater to whites in their living rooms.

As poster said that the biggest challenge is assembling the right mix of students. There you have it. What is the right mix?

Look familiarity brings comfort black principal corps, black instructional superintendents, black chancellor, black student population, black mayor and black voters that your white politicians need.

I'd wager that most white parents don't want DC to become One White City. They like the diversity and it's one reason why they want to avoid moving to the suburbs.

Diversity is good, but diversity does not mean huge swaths of the city that are entirely low-SES AA. Gentrification brings diversity - it's not just white folks moving in, it's high-SES AAs, it's asians, latinos et cetera.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
I'd wager that most white parents don't want DC to become One White City. They like the diversity and it's one reason why they want to avoid moving to the suburbs.

Maybe not, but I do think most white parents probably wouldn't mind if DC became One High-SES City With People of Color Who Share My Values.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You all are moving in but you all are not having babies. We will become the One Gay City before we will become the One White City. Case in point David Catania.... You want names, then you should be black and in attendance with the DCPS officials when they make their statements. Many DCPS officials take a gander at the room before they talk. Jus think how Rhee as minority herself would sit in the living rooms of whites and listen to their anecdotal remedies on how to handle the other races. As you see Kaya doesn't even go or even cater to whites in their living rooms.

As poster said that the biggest challenge is assembling the right mix of students. There you have it. What is the right mix?

Look familiarity brings comfort black principal corps, black instructional superintendents, black chancellor, black student population, black mayor and black voters that your white politicians need.

I'd wager that most white parents don't want DC to become One White City. They like the diversity and it's one reason why they want to avoid moving to the suburbs.

What makes you think same sex couples don't have/want kids and are interested in this subject too? There may even be (gasp) same sex AA/mixed familes in the equation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
I'd wager that most white parents don't want DC to become One White City. They like the diversity and it's one reason why they want to avoid moving to the suburbs.

Maybe not, but I do think most white parents probably wouldn't mind if DC became One High-SES City With People of Color Who Share My Values.

I don't care about what race my neighbors are - and if they shared my values, I guarantee that within a decade, they'd no longer be low-SES.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You all are moving in but you all are not having babies. We will become the One Gay City before we will become the One White City. Case in point David Catania.... You want names, then you should be black and in attendance with the DCPS officials when they make their statements. Many DCPS officials take a gander at the room before they talk. Jus think how Rhee as minority herself would sit in the living rooms of whites and listen to their anecdotal remedies on how to handle the other races. As you see Kaya doesn't even go or even cater to whites in their living rooms.

As poster said that the biggest challenge is assembling the right mix of students. There you have it. What is the right mix?

Look familiarity brings comfort black principal corps, black instructional superintendents, black chancellor, black student population, black mayor and black voters that your white politicians need.

^^This is such an embarrassing heap of steaming garbage.

[Anonymous]

The right mix of students means a critical mass of students that actually care about going to school, and know how to behave and respect each other. Race and SES are not the issue, values and culture are the issue.

[Anonymous]

Is a heap of garbage because you know it to be true. To the poster why are the hired people at headquarters are liars, they are only saying out loud to what other people are thinking. Don't our predominantly white laden PTSA and LSRT say one thing and do another? Life-experiences bring on long conversations and thus DCPS will share their "I [black] was just like them [black] when I was in school." The lie is just what you've posted yourselves, all this talk about diversity is wonderful but the underlying factor is as long as they [whites] are the majority. This craziness that the only way a school system can survive if whites and high SES blacks become part of the solution is racism through rose-colored glasses. Whites like diversity compared to blacks that don't?

It takes all kinds but to think that in an inner-city which is different than an urban city; that whites are our one-stop shop for school change is a buch of shit.

I am just saying this has been going on for years and not one proven factor has persuaded me to think otherwise.

[Anonymous]

Word Salad....how do you work your magic? So many words typed yet so little said.

[Anonymous]

"familiarity brings comfort" - except, a.) what you consider "comfortable" others consider broken and b.) times are changing, and demographics are changing, and it can't just all be about one group being "comfortable" while everyone else is supposed to walk around on eggshells and try to make do with something they consider broken.

There are some basic realities that folks need to come to grips with - Schools that only teach to the level of the lowest achievers don't work. They don't meet ANYONE's needs - not even the needs of those who are "comfortable" with it. I doubt you even know what it is you are missing or why everyone else thinks it's broken.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The right mix of students means a critical mass of students that actually care about going to school, and know how to behave and respect each other. Race and SES are not the issue, values and culture are the issue.

But let's just assume the children at LT are little thugs who don't care about school and jump ship. This is the problem with LT. This fear.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are some basic realities that folks need to come to grips with - Schools that only teach to the level of the lowest achievers don't work.

From what I have, that is not a problem at L-T. The absence of a G&T program does not mean the school is failing to challenge students at different levels.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are some basic realities that folks need to come to grips with - Schools that only teach to the level of the lowest achievers don't work.

Anonymous wrote:From what I have, that is not a problem at L-T. The absence of a G&T program does not mean the school is failing to challenge students at different levels.

Other Hill schools like Watkins, Brent, Maury, Tyler, SWS, Logan are struggling, in the eyes of many parents, to offer a level or rigor that compares with the best schools in the region. Why would one think that LT escapes the issue somehow?

[Anonymous]

Not even talking G&T here, nobody even said anything about G&T. Many DCPS schools aren't adequately meeting the needs of ANY students regardless of what level they are.