“We need to preserve diversity and mitigate the projected whitening of the feeder pattern”

[Anonymous]

Really DCPS? You actually wrote this in a presentation you prepared for parents?

This is the parent/DCPS working group on changes to the Foxhall Elementary and MacArthur feeder pattern. To literally say this....just, wow. Our kid will be attending these schools.

I need a shower.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/19cvisc6heSYwz295mUyQoeSYNzxoEKWV/view?usp=drivesdk

[Anonymous]

I dont need a shower-- I need DCPS to amplify this planning outside of upper whitelandia, apply the at-risk preference for real.

[Anonymous]

I’d be homeschooling.

[Anonymous]

Parent of white kids in the Deal/Wilson feeder pattern here: I don't have a problem with this language. It's a little clumsy, obviously, but I'm fine with the goal of diverse schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Parent of white kids in the Deal/Wilson feeder pattern here: I don't have a problem with this language. It's a little clumsy, obviously, but I'm fine with the goal of diverse schools.

OP here:
If you want to promote equity, you discuss the positives - seats for OOB, at risk preferences, benefits for those populations, etc.
You don’t talk about an entire ethnicity as if it’s a “problem” to be solved. This isn’t clumsy; it’s hostile.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Parent of white kids in the Deal/Wilson feeder pattern here: I don't have a problem with this language. It's a little clumsy, obviously, but I'm fine with the goal of diverse schools.

OP here:
If you want to promote equity, you discuss the positives - seats for OOB, at risk preferences, benefits for those populations, etc.
You don’t talk about an entire ethnicity as if it’s a “problem” to be solved. This isn’t clumsy; it’s hostile.

So now, what, we're going to be all up in arms about whatever proposal they make because of some dumb language in a PowerPoint? I don't think it's hostile, anyway.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Parent of white kids in the Deal/Wilson feeder pattern here: I don't have a problem with this language. It's a little clumsy, obviously, but I'm fine with the goal of diverse schools.

OP here:
If you want to promote equity, you discuss the positives - seats for OOB, at risk preferences, benefits for those populations, etc.
You don’t talk about an entire ethnicity as if it’s a “problem” to be solved. This isn’t clumsy; it’s hostile.

Disagree. Decenter your feelings. This is shooting straight. "We need to preserve diversity and mitigate the projected whitening of the feeder pattern”"

Mitigate the projected whitening of the feeder pattern by not eliminating OOB feeder rights is a very real opportunity and challenge for our city right now.

[Anonymous]

They should have clothed it in their usual jargon and you wouldn't have noticed, OP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Parent of white kids in the Deal/Wilson feeder pattern here: I don't have a problem with this language. It's a little clumsy, obviously, but I'm fine with the goal of diverse schools.

OP here:
If you want to promote equity, you discuss the positives - seats for OOB, at risk preferences, benefits for those populations, etc.
You don’t talk about an entire ethnicity as if it’s a “problem” to be solved. This isn’t clumsy; it’s hostile.

Tell me, OP, about your experience with equity. Equality does not equal equity. Chase, Nora and Hattie will be fine.

[Anonymous]

know that this diversity comes at the expense of the rest of DCPS.

If DCPS is "curating diversity" why is it picking a 25% or 15% or 10% black population who is generally not low-income, to become part of segregated neighborhoods' schools west of Rock Creek Park?

Why can't those students be "curated" for our EOTP schools so that they will have student bodies more like Shepherd's across Wards 1, 4, 5, and 6? Why are we "preserving diversity" instead of ending what almost everyone recognizes as near-uniform segregation instead for schools outside of Ward 3 or 2?

[Anonymous]

It sounds hostile to me. Wasn’t there also a DCPS career planning or college planning (something like that) town hall for HS students earlier this year that sent out invitations to students of color?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:know that this diversity comes at the expense of the rest of DCPS.

If DCPS is "curating diversity" why is it picking a 25% or 15% or 10% black population who is generally not low-income, to become part of segregated neighborhoods' schools west of Rock Creek Park?

Why can't those students be "curated" for our EOTP schools so that they will have student bodies more like Shepherd's across Wards 1, 4, 5, and 6? Why are we "preserving diversity" instead of ending what almost everyone recognizes as near-uniform segregation instead for schools outside of Ward 3 or 2?

Because the “petite elite” who are chummy with the Mayor want those seats and their big, cheap houses in neighborhoods with subpar schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Parent of white kids in the Deal/Wilson feeder pattern here: I don't have a problem with this language. It's a little clumsy, obviously, but I'm fine with the goal of diverse schools.

OP here:
If you want to promote equity, you discuss the positives - seats for OOB, at risk preferences, benefits for those populations, etc.
You don’t talk about an entire ethnicity as if it’s a “problem” to be solved. This isn’t clumsy; it’s hostile.

Disagree. Decenter your feelings. This is shooting straight. "We need to preserve diversity and mitigate the projected whitening of the feeder pattern”"

Mitigate the projected whitening of the feeder pattern by not eliminating OOB feeder rights is a very real opportunity and challenge for our city right now.

How are they going to deal with the “whitening” of the voter rolls?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Parent of white kids in the Deal/Wilson feeder pattern here: I don't have a problem with this language. It's a little clumsy, obviously, but I'm fine with the goal of diverse schools.

OP here:
If you want to promote equity, you discuss the positives - seats for OOB, at risk preferences, benefits for those populations, etc.
You don’t talk about an entire ethnicity as if it’s a “problem” to be solved. This isn’t clumsy; it’s hostile.

Disagree. Decenter your feelings. This is shooting straight. "We need to preserve diversity and mitigate the projected whitening of the feeder pattern”"

Mitigate the projected whitening of the feeder pattern by not eliminating OOB feeder rights is a very real opportunity and challenge for our city right now.

How are they going to deal with the “whitening” of the voter rolls?

Voters going to vote. They have and they will.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Parent of white kids in the Deal/Wilson feeder pattern here: I don't have a problem with this language. It's a little clumsy, obviously, but I'm fine with the goal of diverse schools.

OP here:
If you want to promote equity, you discuss the positives - seats for OOB, at risk preferences, benefits for those populations, etc.
You don’t talk about an entire ethnicity as if it’s a “problem” to be solved. This isn’t clumsy; it’s hostile.

Disagree. Decenter your feelings. This is shooting straight. "We need to preserve diversity and mitigate the projected whitening of the feeder pattern”"

Mitigate the projected whitening of the feeder pattern by not eliminating OOB feeder rights is a very real opportunity and challenge for our city right now.

How are they going to deal with the “whitening” of the voter rolls?

OK, now THAT language is hostile.