In DC: "White Parents Horrified by George Floyd Video Still Go to Great Lengths..."
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...to Keep Their Children in Segregated Schools
I know the title sounds like this is a piece from the Onion - or just clickbait - but this is a very thoughtful piece centered on race in DC schools, and specifically nice white parents and the choices they make. https://www.the74million.org/article/white-parents-horrified-by-george-floyd-video-still-go-to-great-lengths-to-keep-their-children-in-segregated-schools/ |
Anonymous
| Yep. There are a whole lot of hypocrites on this website that's for sure. |
Anonymous
| It is also factually incorrect, but since when did media get DC right? |
Anonymous
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Shame on those parents for entering a lottery to get their kids into Wilson, a school that is 39% white.
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Anonymous
Keep telling yourself that. You're totally missing the point. |
Anonymous
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This is a great article, it address some things many white people will not admit.
Just in that other forum I saw many comments saying to essentially leave Ward 3 out of it and fix ward 7 & 8. No, it's not just ward 7 & 8, it's every school in wards 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 that is full of low SES children. Ward 3 is just the only ward with the absence of that. While I agree ward 7 & 8 needs to be better the issue is not just that. White people do send their kids to schools beyond W3 BUT only at schools with a higher percentage of White families and areas that are becoming or are already gentrified. But in DC in particular I will say another great issue is the leadership. When will we actually focus on low SES students so they do not become a reflection of their parents. I am not saying low SES families are incapable but the reality is they do not have access or awareness of everything a higher SES families does. I am saying this as a Black teacher and years upon years of seeing interactions with all kinds of families. DCPS is not innovative, they do not give title 1 schools enough support. You will not find a freaking rooftop garden for 'horticultural therapy' at a title 1 school. And I am not saying that is what those kids need, I am saying there are less opportunities for them. Money does create opportunity and DCPS invests it in the wrong places and doesn't give back to the school; academically, emotionally, or structurally. |
Anonymous
| Let’s suppose the author lives mid-city, like maybe Ward 4 (wink, wink). Does that make him morally superior to someone who lives in Ward 3? Should not the author share is high SES resources by living EOTR? |
Anonymous
| I wonder where the author's kids go to school. |
Anonymous
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I'd say the dude who wrote this piece is a bit off his rocker, select quote:
"If you are a white person who moved to a “nice,” mostly white, upper-middle class town or neighborhood “for the schools” (full of mostly white, upper-middle class children), for instance, you are following a well-trodden — but privileged — path." So, I take it Mr. Noblesse thinks the moral thing for a rich white person to do is to move her family to a particularly terrible school district so the kids can sink or swim there. I mean, who in the world does that. It's like choosing to buy a bag of cheetos when you're really hungry and can easily afford to buy a nice meal. The one thing I do agree with Mr. Noblesse is that we should build more affordable housing. But that statement of truth doesn't save the cracked reasoning in the rest of the piece. |
Anonymous
| Hasn't this horse already been beaten to death? All of you are free to enroll your children at Ballou. No one is stopping you. |
Anonymous
A bilingual HRCS. |
Anonymous
Yup |
Anonymous
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This guy does NOT like DCUM!!
" . . . toxic privileged behavior visible in tony enclaves like DC Urban Moms." Wonder where his kids will be going to school . . . |
Anonymous
Looks like the dude worked a low paid "real job" for merely two years, after college...and then jumped right back into graduate school for what amounts to most of his life. I smell a trust fund... Just wait until his kids have to enter HS, he will probably have a mid-life crisis dealing with the horrors of reality... |
Anonymous
High school? Try middle school. His oldest kid is around 9. |