Will this finally get DCPS to create magnet schools?

[Anonymous]

This WaPo article discusses the continued segregation in many DCPS and charter schools in DC. One of the reasons cited is the lack of effort on the part of DC to attract and retain white families, and one of the suggestions to remedy that is developing a magnet program. DCPS has repeatedly ignored DC families when it comes to gifted programs and magnet schools but will this finally prod someone into action?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/report-public-schools-in-the-district-remain-highly-segregated/2017/02/26/2e1d7906-ef0d-11e6-9973-c5efb7ccfb0d_story.html?utm_term=.8e7bb7b7423e

[Anonymous]

No, it will not.

[Anonymous]

Magnet programs alone will not attract diversity. Any parent with a brain, will not send their child to a school or program without observing the behavioral of children. In most DC Public Schools the dominant cultural will prevail. Unfortunately, and most of the schools have no discipline.

[Anonymous]

Honestly, most people I know in DC read the magnet posts from VA and MD with horror. We don't want our kids treated that way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Honestly, most people I know in DC read the magnet posts from VA and MD with horror. We don't want our kids treated that way.

Treated what way? I went to a magnet school in MCPS and don't have any idea what you could be talking about. (Though I don't read the VA/MD boards now.)

[Anonymous]

Why does it have to be a magnet school? There are a handful of school wife enrichment model schools in DC?

Or do you just need to show that your kid is better than the riff raff?

[Anonymous]

SWW, Banneker, McKinley, and Ellington are magnet schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:SWW, Banneker, McKinley, and Ellington are magnet schools.

Some corresponding magnet middle schools would go a long way. I think many are comfortable with elementary school here but not middle.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why does it have to be a magnet school? There are a handful of school wife enrichment model schools in DC?

Or do you just need to show that your kid is better than the riff raff?

SEM won't change the racial components of a neighborhood school system. City-wide magnets do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Honestly, most people I know in DC read the magnet posts from VA and MD with horror. We don't want our kids treated that way.

Treated what way? I went to a magnet school in MCPS and don't have any idea what you could be talking about. (Though I don't read the VA/MD boards now.)

The prepping, testing, measuring and comparing IQs, in or out, bussing, bullying and bashing ... those threads are horrid.

FWIW, DH and I both were in such programs too, and we are more than happy with how our DCPS schools handle our kids advanced needs. I know not all schools do this well, but they could if they followed the model of the schools who are doing it well. DCPS knows how, they just need to implement it everywhere.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why does it have to be a magnet school? There are a handful of school wife enrichment model schools in DC?

Or do you just need to show that your kid is better than the riff raff?

SEM won't change the racial components of a neighborhood school system. City-wide magnets do.

Why?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Magnet programs alone will not attract diversity. Any parent with a brain, will not send their child to a school or program without observing the behavioral of children. In most DC Public Schools the dominant cultural will prevail. Unfortunately, and most of the schools have no discipline.

No discipline

[Anonymous]

Magnet schools will not attract white families to send their children to majority black schools. It makes them feel uncomfortable and we all know that if the school is majority black it must not be a safe environment. What will make them send their children there would be enough white students attending the school so that the families would not feel like a minority. Wilson is a good example of this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Magnet schools will not attract white families to send their children to majority black schools. It makes them feel uncomfortable and we all know that if the school is majority black it must not be a safe environment. What will make them send their children there would be enough white students attending the school so that the families would not feel like a minority. Wilson is a good example of this.

Who are you people that say and think things like this?

[Anonymous]

The people who are honest. Discipline matters to parents who are concerned about the socio-economic environment of the school. Again, whatever the perception is of the dominate learning culture will impact the decision making. Let's get real, if it is predominate black, the perception among whites will be out of control.