DC White flight - what will it mean for education?

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Anonymous wrote:Anecdotally, a lot of my DD’s 1st grade classmates on the Hill are moving to the burbs this summer. Not sure if it’s more than usual or not (certainly more than past summers though). At least 4 of 19 in her class alone.

This always happens. People stay in DC to get the free preschool and then they go where they really want to raise kids.

Exactly. These people were never going to stay anyway. They came to DC as young professionals, "played city" for a while (which was super progressive and cool), then are returning to the suburbs where they were raised themselves.

I seriously will never understand what’s wrong with this. It’s fun and easy to live in a city when you’re young and don’t have kids. And it’s easy and nice to live in the suburbs when you do have kids. What’s so evil and wrong about this that you say it with such disdain?

[Anonymous]

I heavily support more advanced programming starting at the middle school level in DCPS. It is important that all kids have the ability to move into and out of that programming somewhat fluidly as their abilities permit and that students are empowered/confident in their learning/schoolwork. This does not mean that I want my child segregated. Nor does it mean that I do not care about all kids.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anecdotally, a lot of my DD’s 1st grade classmates on the Hill are moving to the burbs this summer. Not sure if it’s more than usual or not (certainly more than past summers though). At least 4 of 19 in her class alone.

This always happens. People stay in DC to get the free preschool and then they go where they really want to raise kids.

Exactly. These people were never going to stay anyway. They came to DC as young professionals, "played city" for a while (which was super progressive and cool), then are returning to the suburbs where they were raised themselves.

I seriously will never understand what’s wrong with this. It’s fun and easy to live in a city when you’re young and don’t have kids. And it’s easy and nice to live in the suburbs when you do have kids. What’s so evil and wrong about this that you say it with such disdain?

+1. It’s a weird thing to feel resentful about.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Anecdotally, a lot of my DD’s 1st grade classmates on the Hill are moving to the burbs this summer. Not sure if it’s more than usual or not (certainly more than past summers though). At least 4 of 19 in her class alone.

This always happens. People stay in DC to get the free preschool and then they go where they really want to raise kids.

Exactly. These people were never going to stay anyway. They came to DC as young professionals, "played city" for a while (which was super progressive and cool), then are returning to the suburbs where they were raised themselves.

I seriously will never understand what’s wrong with this. It’s fun and easy to live in a city when you’re young and don’t have kids. And it’s easy and nice to live in the suburbs when you do have kids. What’s so evil and wrong about this that you say it with such disdain?

+1. It’s a weird thing to feel resentful about.

Even weirder, those young people in the city are paying plenty of taxes and using few city services. They're subsidizing the rest of us.

[Anonymous]

When did DC stop being transient? People always come and go.

If someone cam keep the same HCOL pay and live in a LCOL place, why wouldn’t they?

[Anonymous]

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DCPS is a district focused primarily on the growth and success of low-income children of color. From leadership down that is the priority, and it should be.

Explain to me why a school system should focus primarily upon on one socio-economic and ethnic group. Other jurisdictions like Arlington, Alexandria, MCPS, and Fairfax somehow seem to manage to care about ALL learners.

Because inequality is horrible for society overall, yes even for you.

I'm a European immigrant (but not Anglo) who is disgusted with continuing segregation and imprisonment of a significant portion of the US population. I want my kids to benefit from fair competition where the brightest minds can apply their talents and efforts to better society, not a system that suppresses such talent based on random and inconsequential (to quality) attribute, such as skin color, gender, accent, religion, sexual orientation, to name a few.


Do people really not get it or just pretend not to get it? SMH

Most whites believe that those other groups don’t contain the best or brightest. See how DCUM uses “white” as a proxy for UMC. If you’re really European but not Anglo, then you must be aware of this racism yourself, because it’s rampant in Europe also. Or are you just pretending it doesn’t exist?

Usually I am on DCUM castigating the casual racism of posters. In this case I am going to argue your virtual signaling blindness is getting in the way of facts. People use "white" as a placeholder for UMC and "black" as a placeholder for FARMs because the DC data supports those as reasonable proxies. I don't think anyone who uses those words that way fails to understand their are FARMs white families and UMC black ones. But in DC there are on the whole very few white FARMs families and the poverty rate amongst black families in DC is very high especially against all other demos.

There's an ongoing battle on Nextdoor about people who send out lookouts for people who committed crimes and describe hat, hair color, shirt, pants, shoes, car and don't mention the race of the person. When people point out the absurdity of failing to describe the only factor that cannot be changed, the woke police argue it is not ok to describe race. (Never mind that by assuming the perpetrator is black they are showing their own bias). I am betting, PP, that you are on the side of people who think it is wrong to cite the race in a post purporting to be a "look out for" post?

TL: DR It isn't racist to say "black" or "white" if the population about which you speak is mostly black or white.

Not trying to be a dickhead but please capitalize the B in Black but not the "w" in white.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

DCPS is a district focused primarily on the growth and success of low-income children of color. From leadership down that is the priority, and it should be.

Explain to me why a school system should focus primarily upon on one socio-economic and ethnic group. Other jurisdictions like Arlington, Alexandria, MCPS, and Fairfax somehow seem to manage to care about ALL learners.

Because inequality is horrible for society overall, yes even for you.

I'm a European immigrant (but not Anglo) who is disgusted with continuing segregation and imprisonment of a significant portion of the US population. I want my kids to benefit from fair competition where the brightest minds can apply their talents and efforts to better society, not a system that suppresses such talent based on random and inconsequential (to quality) attribute, such as skin color, gender, accent, religion, sexual orientation, to name a few.


Do people really not get it or just pretend not to get it? SMH

Most whites believe that those other groups don’t contain the best or brightest. See how DCUM uses “white” as a proxy for UMC. If you’re really European but not Anglo, then you must be aware of this racism yourself, because it’s rampant in Europe also. Or are you just pretending it doesn’t exist?

Usually I am on DCUM castigating the casual racism of posters. In this case I am going to argue your virtual signaling blindness is getting in the way of facts. People use "white" as a placeholder for UMC and "black" as a placeholder for FARMs because the DC data supports those as reasonable proxies. I don't think anyone who uses those words that way fails to understand their are FARMs white families and UMC black ones. But in DC there are on the whole very few white FARMs families and the poverty rate amongst black families in DC is very high especially against all other demos.

There's an ongoing battle on Nextdoor about people who send out lookouts for people who committed crimes and describe hat, hair color, shirt, pants, shoes, car and don't mention the race of the person. When people point out the absurdity of failing to describe the only factor that cannot be changed, the woke police argue it is not ok to describe race. (Never mind that by assuming the perpetrator is black they are showing their own bias). I am betting, PP, that you are on the side of people who think it is wrong to cite the race in a post purporting to be a "look out for" post?

TL: DR It isn't racist to say "black" or "white" if the population about which you speak is mostly black or white.

Not trying to be a dickhead but please capitalize the B in Black but not the "w" in white.

Sorry but you failed both second grade grammar and also trying not to be a dickhead

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

DCPS is a district focused primarily on the growth and success of low-income children of color. From leadership down that is the priority, and it should be.

Explain to me why a school system should focus primarily upon on one socio-economic and ethnic group. Other jurisdictions like Arlington, Alexandria, MCPS, and Fairfax somehow seem to manage to care about ALL learners.

Because inequality is horrible for society overall, yes even for you.

I'm a European immigrant (but not Anglo) who is disgusted with continuing segregation and imprisonment of a significant portion of the US population. I want my kids to benefit from fair competition where the brightest minds can apply their talents and efforts to better society, not a system that suppresses such talent based on random and inconsequential (to quality) attribute, such as skin color, gender, accent, religion, sexual orientation, to name a few.


Do people really not get it or just pretend not to get it? SMH

Most whites believe that those other groups don’t contain the best or brightest. See how DCUM uses “white” as a proxy for UMC. If you’re really European but not Anglo, then you must be aware of this racism yourself, because it’s rampant in Europe also. Or are you just pretending it doesn’t exist?

Usually I am on DCUM castigating the casual racism of posters. In this case I am going to argue your virtual signaling blindness is getting in the way of facts. People use "white" as a placeholder for UMC and "black" as a placeholder for FARMs because the DC data supports those as reasonable proxies. I don't think anyone who uses those words that way fails to understand their are FARMs white families and UMC black ones. But in DC there are on the whole very few white FARMs families and the poverty rate amongst black families in DC is very high especially against all other demos.

There's an ongoing battle on Nextdoor about people who send out lookouts for people who committed crimes and describe hat, hair color, shirt, pants, shoes, car and don't mention the race of the person. When people point out the absurdity of failing to describe the only factor that cannot be changed, the woke police argue it is not ok to describe race. (Never mind that by assuming the perpetrator is black they are showing their own bias). I am betting, PP, that you are on the side of people who think it is wrong to cite the race in a post purporting to be a "look out for" post?

TL: DR It isn't racist to say "black" or "white" if the population about which you speak is mostly black or white.

Not trying to be a dickhead but please capitalize the B in Black but not the "w" in white.

I am not PP but may I ask why? Is this some sort of white guilt or self castigation or what? I keep seeing B vs w and wonder

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

DCPS is a district focused primarily on the growth and success of low-income children of color. From leadership down that is the priority, and it should be.

Explain to me why a school system should focus primarily upon on one socio-economic and ethnic group. Other jurisdictions like Arlington, Alexandria, MCPS, and Fairfax somehow seem to manage to care about ALL learners.

Because inequality is horrible for society overall, yes even for you.

I'm a European immigrant (but not Anglo) who is disgusted with continuing segregation and imprisonment of a significant portion of the US population. I want my kids to benefit from fair competition where the brightest minds can apply their talents and efforts to better society, not a system that suppresses such talent based on random and inconsequential (to quality) attribute, such as skin color, gender, accent, religion, sexual orientation, to name a few.


Do people really not get it or just pretend not to get it? SMH

Most whites believe that those other groups don’t contain the best or brightest. See how DCUM uses “white” as a proxy for UMC. If you’re really European but not Anglo, then you must be aware of this racism yourself, because it’s rampant in Europe also. Or are you just pretending it doesn’t exist?

Usually I am on DCUM castigating the casual racism of posters. In this case I am going to argue your virtual signaling blindness is getting in the way of facts. People use "white" as a placeholder for UMC and "black" as a placeholder for FARMs because the DC data supports those as reasonable proxies. I don't think anyone who uses those words that way fails to understand their are FARMs white families and UMC black ones. But in DC there are on the whole very few white FARMs families and the poverty rate amongst black families in DC is very high especially against all other demos.

There's an ongoing battle on Nextdoor about people who send out lookouts for people who committed crimes and describe hat, hair color, shirt, pants, shoes, car and don't mention the race of the person. When people point out the absurdity of failing to describe the only factor that cannot be changed, the woke police argue it is not ok to describe race. (Never mind that by assuming the perpetrator is black they are showing their own bias). I am betting, PP, that you are on the side of people who think it is wrong to cite the race in a post purporting to be a "look out for" post?

TL: DR It isn't racist to say "black" or "white" if the population about which you speak is mostly black or white.

Not trying to be a dickhead but please capitalize the B in Black but not the "w" in white.

I am not PP but may I ask why? Is this some sort of white guilt or self castigation or what? I keep seeing B vs w and wonder

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/05/insider/capitalized-black.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

DCPS is a district focused primarily on the growth and success of low-income children of color. From leadership down that is the priority, and it should be.

Explain to me why a school system should focus primarily upon on one socio-economic and ethnic group. Other jurisdictions like Arlington, Alexandria, MCPS, and Fairfax somehow seem to manage to care about ALL learners.

Because inequality is horrible for society overall, yes even for you.

I'm a European immigrant (but not Anglo) who is disgusted with continuing segregation and imprisonment of a significant portion of the US population. I want my kids to benefit from fair competition where the brightest minds can apply their talents and efforts to better society, not a system that suppresses such talent based on random and inconsequential (to quality) attribute, such as skin color, gender, accent, religion, sexual orientation, to name a few.


Do people really not get it or just pretend not to get it? SMH

Most whites believe that those other groups don’t contain the best or brightest. See how DCUM uses “white” as a proxy for UMC. If you’re really European but not Anglo, then you must be aware of this racism yourself, because it’s rampant in Europe also. Or are you just pretending it doesn’t exist?

Usually I am on DCUM castigating the casual racism of posters. In this case I am going to argue your virtual signaling blindness is getting in the way of facts. People use "white" as a placeholder for UMC and "black" as a placeholder for FARMs because the DC data supports those as reasonable proxies. I don't think anyone who uses those words that way fails to understand their are FARMs white families and UMC black ones. But in DC there are on the whole very few white FARMs families and the poverty rate amongst black families in DC is very high especially against all other demos.

There's an ongoing battle on Nextdoor about people who send out lookouts for people who committed crimes and describe hat, hair color, shirt, pants, shoes, car and don't mention the race of the person. When people point out the absurdity of failing to describe the only factor that cannot be changed, the woke police argue it is not ok to describe race. (Never mind that by assuming the perpetrator is black they are showing their own bias). I am betting, PP, that you are on the side of people who think it is wrong to cite the race in a post purporting to be a "look out for" post?

TL: DR It isn't racist to say "black" or "white" if the population about which you speak is mostly black or white.

Not trying to be a dickhead but please capitalize the B in Black but not the "w" in white.

I am not PP but may I ask why? Is this some sort of white guilt or self castigation or what? I keep seeing B vs w and wonder

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/05/insider/capitalized-black.html

LMAO

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

DCPS is a district focused primarily on the growth and success of low-income children of color. From leadership down that is the priority, and it should be.

Explain to me why a school system should focus primarily upon on one socio-economic and ethnic group. Other jurisdictions like Arlington, Alexandria, MCPS, and Fairfax somehow seem to manage to care about ALL learners.

Because inequality is horrible for society overall, yes even for you.

I'm a European immigrant (but not Anglo) who is disgusted with continuing segregation and imprisonment of a significant portion of the US population. I want my kids to benefit from fair competition where the brightest minds can apply their talents and efforts to better society, not a system that suppresses such talent based on random and inconsequential (to quality) attribute, such as skin color, gender, accent, religion, sexual orientation, to name a few.


Do people really not get it or just pretend not to get it? SMH

Most whites believe that those other groups don’t contain the best or brightest. See how DCUM uses “white” as a proxy for UMC. If you’re really European but not Anglo, then you must be aware of this racism yourself, because it’s rampant in Europe also. Or are you just pretending it doesn’t exist?

Usually I am on DCUM castigating the casual racism of posters. In this case I am going to argue your virtual signaling blindness is getting in the way of facts. People use "white" as a placeholder for UMC and "black" as a placeholder for FARMs because the DC data supports those as reasonable proxies. I don't think anyone who uses those words that way fails to understand their are FARMs white families and UMC black ones. But in DC there are on the whole very few white FARMs families and the poverty rate amongst black families in DC is very high especially against all other demos.

There's an ongoing battle on Nextdoor about people who send out lookouts for people who committed crimes and describe hat, hair color, shirt, pants, shoes, car and don't mention the race of the person. When people point out the absurdity of failing to describe the only factor that cannot be changed, the woke police argue it is not ok to describe race. (Never mind that by assuming the perpetrator is black they are showing their own bias). I am betting, PP, that you are on the side of people who think it is wrong to cite the race in a post purporting to be a "look out for" post?

TL: DR It isn't racist to say "black" or "white" if the population about which you speak is mostly black or white.

Not trying to be a dickhead but please capitalize the B in Black but not the "w" in white.

I am not PP but may I ask why? Is this some sort of white guilt or self castigation or what? I keep seeing B vs w and wonder

Well Black also refers to a specific ethnic group, being white isn't an ethnic identity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

DCPS is a district focused primarily on the growth and success of low-income children of color. From leadership down that is the priority, and it should be.

Explain to me why a school system should focus primarily upon on one socio-economic and ethnic group. Other jurisdictions like Arlington, Alexandria, MCPS, and Fairfax somehow seem to manage to care about ALL learners.

Because inequality is horrible for society overall, yes even for you.

I'm a European immigrant (but not Anglo) who is disgusted with continuing segregation and imprisonment of a significant portion of the US population. I want my kids to benefit from fair competition where the brightest minds can apply their talents and efforts to better society, not a system that suppresses such talent based on random and inconsequential (to quality) attribute, such as skin color, gender, accent, religion, sexual orientation, to name a few.


Do people really not get it or just pretend not to get it? SMH

Most whites believe that those other groups don’t contain the best or brightest. See how DCUM uses “white” as a proxy for UMC. If you’re really European but not Anglo, then you must be aware of this racism yourself, because it’s rampant in Europe also. Or are you just pretending it doesn’t exist?

Usually I am on DCUM castigating the casual racism of posters. In this case I am going to argue your virtual signaling blindness is getting in the way of facts. People use "white" as a placeholder for UMC and "black" as a placeholder for FARMs because the DC data supports those as reasonable proxies. I don't think anyone who uses those words that way fails to understand their are FARMs white families and UMC black ones. But in DC there are on the whole very few white FARMs families and the poverty rate amongst black families in DC is very high especially against all other demos.

There's an ongoing battle on Nextdoor about people who send out lookouts for people who committed crimes and describe hat, hair color, shirt, pants, shoes, car and don't mention the race of the person. When people point out the absurdity of failing to describe the only factor that cannot be changed, the woke police argue it is not ok to describe race. (Never mind that by assuming the perpetrator is black they are showing their own bias). I am betting, PP, that you are on the side of people who think it is wrong to cite the race in a post purporting to be a "look out for" post?

TL: DR It isn't racist to say "black" or "white" if the population about which you speak is mostly black or white.

Not trying to be a dickhead but please capitalize the B in Black but not the "w" in white.

I am not PP but may I ask why? Is this some sort of white guilt or self castigation or what? I keep seeing B vs w and wonder

Well Black also refers to a specific ethnic group, being white isn't an ethnic identity.

Dear God. The woke semantics. No one wonder the republicans are going to win. Birthing people? Small capital w?

This obsession with academic “incisive” terminology and castigating anyone who may not use the perfect nomenclature is so fking tiring. Grow up you idiots. Focus on fighting for abortion rights, not fringe issue crap. So cloying.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

DCPS is a district focused primarily on the growth and success of low-income children of color. From leadership down that is the priority, and it should be.

Explain to me why a school system should focus primarily upon on one socio-economic and ethnic group. Other jurisdictions like Arlington, Alexandria, MCPS, and Fairfax somehow seem to manage to care about ALL learners.

Because inequality is horrible for society overall, yes even for you.

I'm a European immigrant (but not Anglo) who is disgusted with continuing segregation and imprisonment of a significant portion of the US population. I want my kids to benefit from fair competition where the brightest minds can apply their talents and efforts to better society, not a system that suppresses such talent based on random and inconsequential (to quality) attribute, such as skin color, gender, accent, religion, sexual orientation, to name a few.


Do people really not get it or just pretend not to get it? SMH

Most whites believe that those other groups don’t contain the best or brightest. See how DCUM uses “white” as a proxy for UMC. If you’re really European but not Anglo, then you must be aware of this racism yourself, because it’s rampant in Europe also. Or are you just pretending it doesn’t exist?

Usually I am on DCUM castigating the casual racism of posters. In this case I am going to argue your virtual signaling blindness is getting in the way of facts. People use "white" as a placeholder for UMC and "black" as a placeholder for FARMs because the DC data supports those as reasonable proxies. I don't think anyone who uses those words that way fails to understand their are FARMs white families and UMC black ones. But in DC there are on the whole very few white FARMs families and the poverty rate amongst black families in DC is very high especially against all other demos.

There's an ongoing battle on Nextdoor about people who send out lookouts for people who committed crimes and describe hat, hair color, shirt, pants, shoes, car and don't mention the race of the person. When people point out the absurdity of failing to describe the only factor that cannot be changed, the woke police argue it is not ok to describe race. (Never mind that by assuming the perpetrator is black they are showing their own bias). I am betting, PP, that you are on the side of people who think it is wrong to cite the race in a post purporting to be a "look out for" post?

TL: DR It isn't racist to say "black" or "white" if the population about which you speak is mostly black or white.

Not trying to be a dickhead but please capitalize the B in Black but not the "w" in white.

I am not PP but may I ask why? Is this some sort of white guilt or self castigation or what? I keep seeing B vs w and wonder

Well Black also refers to a specific ethnic group, being white isn't an ethnic identity.

Dear God. The woke semantics. No one wonder the republicans are going to win. Birthing people? Small capital w?

This obsession with academic “incisive” terminology and castigating anyone who may not use the perfect nomenclature is so fking tiring. Grow up you idiots. Focus on fighting for abortion rights, not fringe issue crap. So cloying.

Sorry, I take that back.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

DCPS is a district focused primarily on the growth and success of low-income children of color. From leadership down that is the priority, and it should be.

Explain to me why a school system should focus primarily upon on one socio-economic and ethnic group. Other jurisdictions like Arlington, Alexandria, MCPS, and Fairfax somehow seem to manage to care about ALL learners.

Because inequality is horrible for society overall, yes even for you.

I'm a European immigrant (but not Anglo) who is disgusted with continuing segregation and imprisonment of a significant portion of the US population. I want my kids to benefit from fair competition where the brightest minds can apply their talents and efforts to better society, not a system that suppresses such talent based on random and inconsequential (to quality) attribute, such as skin color, gender, accent, religion, sexual orientation, to name a few.


Do people really not get it or just pretend not to get it? SMH

You are arguing that DCPS should prioritize a single demographic out of equality?! Huh.

You know as well as I do that when DCUM parents say they want “equal treatment” of their demographic, what they really mean is that they demand the right to utterly reshape educational policy and implement pro-white affirmative action in a doomed attempt to attract high SES white families to schools. When they say they want equality, they DON’T mean - as other groups who have made that demand have meant — that they want an end to discriminatory or abusive policies. What they want is that the schools be reshaped in a way that pleases them (tracking, gifted programs, suspensions and expulsions). And they want all that as a gesture to high SES whites who currently don’t use the schools —- a gesture that history shows will certainly fail as those high SES whites continue to move to be burbs or go private, despite their protestations to the contrary.

I'm sorry, did you just equate racially biased suspensions and disproportionate discipline of children of color with providing honors classes in MS and HS? This type of BS is how people like you lose people like me who otherwise support equity goals. I is possible to achieve multiple goals and outcomes at the same time. And it is patently offensive to suggest that honors classes and provision of advanced materials is somehow biased against children of color.

Nice try, but you know — or you ought to know — that’s not what I said. What I said is that DCUM parents demand tracking and gifted programs (programs where kids are segregated —- supposedly by ability —- into G&T classes and « regular «  classes.

No one has any issue with high schools offering honors and AP classes. However, if you look at the extremely problematic and explicitly racist history of tracking and G&T programs in many jurisdictions, including DC, you will understand why demands from UMC white parents —- made on this board every single day —- that schools be made over so that students be tracked early and rigorously cut no ice with most DCPS parents.

You are being too cute by half; you denied that what I accused you of is what you said, and then said what I accused you of saying!

Your position appears to be that MS should not track kids or have advanced classes for advanced learners. I wonder if you have kids or spend any time in schools if you fail to understand that kids differentiate well before HS. The position you and your well meaning but regressive cabal seem to take is that because tracking could be used for malintent, we should teach to the lowest common denominator.

UMC white families will supplement or leave the area or system. By refusing to allow advanced classes for advanced MS learners you are disproportionately hurting black kids who can and want to do advanced work. I think you know that, and I think you are ok with that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

DCPS is a district focused primarily on the growth and success of low-income children of color. From leadership down that is the priority, and it should be.

Explain to me why a school system should focus primarily upon on one socio-economic and ethnic group. Other jurisdictions like Arlington, Alexandria, MCPS, and Fairfax somehow seem to manage to care about ALL learners.

Because inequality is horrible for society overall, yes even for you.

I'm a European immigrant (but not Anglo) who is disgusted with continuing segregation and imprisonment of a significant portion of the US population. I want my kids to benefit from fair competition where the brightest minds can apply their talents and efforts to better society, not a system that suppresses such talent based on random and inconsequential (to quality) attribute, such as skin color, gender, accent, religion, sexual orientation, to name a few.


Do people really not get it or just pretend not to get it? SMH

Most whites believe that those other groups don’t contain the best or brightest. See how DCUM uses “white” as a proxy for UMC. If you’re really European but not Anglo, then you must be aware of this racism yourself, because it’s rampant in Europe also. Or are you just pretending it doesn’t exist?

Usually I am on DCUM castigating the casual racism of posters. In this case I am going to argue your virtual signaling blindness is getting in the way of facts. People use "white" as a placeholder for UMC and "black" as a placeholder for FARMs because the DC data supports those as reasonable proxies. I don't think anyone who uses those words that way fails to understand their are FARMs white families and UMC black ones. But in DC there are on the whole very few white FARMs families and the poverty rate amongst black families in DC is very high especially against all other demos.

There's an ongoing battle on Nextdoor about people who send out lookouts for people who committed crimes and describe hat, hair color, shirt, pants, shoes, car and don't mention the race of the person. When people point out the absurdity of failing to describe the only factor that cannot be changed, the woke police argue it is not ok to describe race. (Never mind that by assuming the perpetrator is black they are showing their own bias). I am betting, PP, that you are on the side of people who think it is wrong to cite the race in a post purporting to be a "look out for" post?

TL: DR It isn't racist to say "black" or "white" if the population about which you speak is mostly black or white.

Not trying to be a dickhead but please capitalize the B in Black but not the "w" in white.

Great job focusing on the important things. By all means don't worry about substandard education or the issue at hand. Obviously what matters is ensuring the woke-of-the-day issue is addressed so that some small but vocal group of virtue signaling, ivy league educated wanna be deep thinking, self-appointed woke police can alienate people who otherwise share their policy goals.

You, PP are an idiot, Idiot, and IDIOT. I believe all 3 are correct in this context, but I'm certain you'll chime in to tell me if I'm wrong.