Reply to Would DCPS be Less Segregated Without Charters?

Forum Index » DC Public and Public Charter Schools

Reply to "Would DCPS be Less Segregated Without Charters?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I want to have this one out mostly to challenge my own biases. It’s my believe based on my experience that DCPS is desegregating, though slowly, as residential patterns change. But I worry about whether the option of choosing charters as a way out of your neighborhood schools is slowing this desegregation. Or not. In my opinion it does lead to at least to some ability-based sorting - “creaming” by choice or whatever you want to call it, and that this retards fuller integration. I’d like to have others’ opinions and see if my biases are off. And whether there are actual choices out there or trends coming in the future. [/quote]

this misses a key point.  Parts of DC are not really desegregating as much as gentrifying.  Doesn't really apply to Wards 7/8, which are as segregated as upper NW neighborhoods.  Many charters are as fully segregated as neighborhood schools in lower income neighborhoods.[/quote]

PP here.  This is a good point. Charters drive gentrification and help integrate neighborhood schools in ward 4 and 5, for example, but they don't function this same way in wards 7 and 8.  That may change with the EOTR movement of charter schools that appeal to high SES demographics that tend to be whiter.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics