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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do Maury and Brent parents seriously not see a problem with their kids attending majority white schools in a city that is majority-minority? I always wonder this about SWS too. It’s not that I don’t understand that it’s no individual parent’s “fault” that this is the case, but… doesn’t it bother you? Of course we all want our kids to get a good education, but one question I’d ask myself is what we are teaching our kids when we tell them the best schools are the whitest schools. Do you not think they pick up in this stuff? Trust me: by MS they know exactly what the score is. That’s part of the education you are giving them too.[/quote]

POC inbounds for Maury. We don’t send out kids there because they would be one of the only nonwhite kids in the classroom. We got in SWS- turned it down for the same reason. We drive to a charter and get some pushback from some neighbors for not supporting our neighborhood schools (these are exclusively white women who feel at liberty to say this).

Then point I am trying to make is that you can’t win. I do not feel offended at people who choose to go to their neighborhood school. It’s a rich white neighborhood and attacking people who send their kids to the local public school won’t help. SWS on the other hand……[/quote]

Maury is 40% non-white though? I mean you do you (and it's nice that you found a charter you like), but I don't think it's accurate to say that your child would be "one of the only" nonwhite kids.[/quote]

Not in the lower grades [/quote]

Was just going to post this.

It is common in Capital Hill schools for them to be majority or even mostly white in the PK and early grades, and then become less and less white as the ages increase. It's generally pretty obvious to anyone who has attended one of these schools, and the implications are uncomfortable. That doesn't mean anyone is wrong for attending or not attending their in-bound school -- families have to make the choices that make the most sense for them, and no one should be expected to sacrifice their child to an abstract value, especially because one family doing this alone will have no impact.

But it is something we should keep talking about, even if it's uncomfortable. I honestly think we need some kind of "come to Jesus" moment with DC public school and that we probably need to overhaul the whole system. And that is scary to people who have gotten comfortable with the current system and found ways to make it work for them. But it is very hard to look at DC schools and say "yep, this seems fine, why change it." The inequities are alarming and I actually really do wonder what my child is learning about the world from that. The kids see it, they know what is going on. And I think it impacts kids on both sides of the privilege divide negatively, because what we're really telling our kids is that we don't know how to do any better and have basically given up on trying.[/quote]

I have a kid in an upper grade in Maury and the race composition has not really changed since K. I think it’s an outdated perception that white parents leave Hill schools because they get “too black” in upper grades (and also doesn’t really make sense since there’s not a huge # of lottery spots that open in upper grades to change demographics.) I think this perception comes from a few years where the rapid pace of gentrification meant black families did not move IB at the same rates due to loss of affordable rental housing. So the lower grades looked whiter. For better or for worse, the crack down on boundary violations played a part as well. Plenty of white (and POC) families leave our school but generally it’s to move to the burbs or for a charter with MS/HS options. [b]Nobody is leaving Maury because the 4th grade is too black[/b]. [/quote]

Also the original PP had the exact opposite concern, right? She thinks Maury is too white.  So if white kids are leaving after K that would be a good (or at least neutral) thing from her perspective[/quote]

Just a reminder that there are other races besides black and white. [/quote]

PP just said she didn't want her kids to be among the only non-white kids at Maury.  Others were pointing out that the school is 40% non-white.  No one said all the non-white kids were black?[/quote]

But that is generally the case. [/quote]

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