Reply to Parents of DCPS HS graduates - were your kids prepared for college?

Forum Index » DC Public and Public Charter Schools

Reply to "Parents of DCPS HS graduates - were your kids prepared for college?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Highest predictor of academic success is education level of mother. That's why J-R is called "Yale or Jail." Parents who can supplement - supplement from an early age with weekend language classes, tutors, summer camps, internships. Those kids are prepared for college and would be prepared anywhere. [/quote]

To be clear "Yale or jail" is widely recognized as a racist trope centered in the idea of Black exceptionalism (i.e. any outstanding Black student is one of a small number of "good ones", but most Black teens are inherently bad and destined for jail).

Of course, the reality is that the overwhelming majority of non-college-bound kids who graduate from JR go on extremely positive and productive lives -- there are ROTC kids who join the military, kids who become firefighters, kids who become police officers, etc.  In short, the people who do the day-to-day work that makes DC livable as a city and the US a functional country.[/quote]

"Yale or Jail" is a widely recognized term in academic literature to describe an often racist system centered in the ideal that White/Asian students are destined for college and Black and Brown students are tracked for non-college curricula. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/854858/pdf. Still exists. Still exists at J-R. Still, Black and Brown students with educated mothers are going to be largely fine and prepared for college.  [/quote]

My black coworker uses this phrase. [/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