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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hundreds of millions of DC tax dollars supporting “Afrofuturism.”

Nice.[/quote]

No, as noted above, that program is grant funded, not taxpayer funded. And also it's a lot less than "hundreds of millions" (it's 25 million spread over 6 schools including schools with programs that sound a lot less ridiculous than the Dunbar one).

Though insofar as programs like this paper over real issues at these schools that need actual solutions, it does undermine the benefit of actual DCPS spending. Because Dunbar embracing a program like this just further alienates IB families who want high academic standards and more academic opportunity, pushing them to look elsewhere than their by right school.[/quote]

Np on this issue, but Dunbar is our inbounds high school. I looked at the website and as a non-African American, I legitimately can't tell if this school is open to my family: https://www.dunbarhsdc.org/

It very much looks like segregation is the aim. [/quote]

I don't get that from the website (that segregation is the aim). They are (rightfully, IMO) celebrating a time of excellence for that school, when they sent graduates to the Ivy League during segregation. It really was a good school amidst an overtly racist school situation. Hard to talk about that past without including all the information.

I don't see it as them trying to recreate it... They just want current students to be reminded of that excellence.

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np: I don't think you looked at the Mission and Vision page. Dunbar absolutely should be proud of its past, but its values explicitly emphasize Black pride, while there is no mention of their vision for a multicultural future.

It's not a reasonable application of taxpayer money for a neighborhood public school in a diverse boundary to identify itself as a jr. HBCU.
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The website states: Our mission is to ensure that [b]every[/b] student reaches their full potential through rigorous and joyful learning experiences provided in a nurturing environment.[/quote]

You know that isn't all it says.[/quote]

Maybe I missed it but where is the section that states its "values explicitly emphasize Black pride?"[/quote]

https://www.dunbarhsdc.org/about_us/mission_and_vision

"Our Values

Sankofa
Community
Lifelong Learning
Activism
Pride [with black upraised fist icon]
"[/quote]

All of the icons are black. If they were all white would that make you feel better?[/quote]

So maybe it's meant to invoke anarchism?  general resistance?  trade union power?

And what of Sankofa?

You are being obtuse. You can split hairs on technicalities, but the message is still loud and clear.[/quote]

The message I am getting from people on this board is that white people are uncomfortable if whiteness is not centered. [/quote]

How about taking this message instead:

White people are uncomfortable if their child is zoned for a school and that school makes it clear that their child is not welcome.

The future is multicultural.  Just because DC has been "Chocolate City" in the past doesn't mean that's its future.  Is there some tension around this?  Yes.  Is it understandable?  Yes.

Is it also understandable that white parents who pay taxes and have committed to this city want their child to be explicitly welcomed through words and actions into the school they are zoned for?  Yes.  Wouldn't you want the same as a black family?  [/quote]

The school's stated mission is to educate every student. I see the school as celebrating its history and you see it as "making it clear your child is not welcome."  My other point is that in my opinion it doesn't matter if the school changed the website today to a more inclusive message, it would not lead to increased white enrollment because the students at the school are overwhelmingly black.[/quote]

That’s funny, I don’t see a commitment to education explicitly stated anywhere outside of “lifelong learning,” and if look at revealed preference in terms of graduation rate and test scores, those look terrible as well. As for the “everyone” piece, it’s not troubling that the neighborhood public school population looks nothing like the neighborhood? [/quote]

If non black people want the school to reflect the neighborhood, they should send their children there. [/quote]

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