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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Principals should be ranked on how many white kids they recruit and retain in gentrifying neighborhoods.  It would demonstrate reaching out to IB high ses families and creating truly neighborhood schools full of IB families.im IB for bruce Monroe but have issues with my kid being te only white student or not being fluent in Spanish which is language of their 60% ESL population.  None of the white high ses families we know IB send their kids. [/quote]

[b]I don't like this attitude.  Fair-handedness is important, certainly.  But no school should be seen as trying to "recruit and retain white kids."  You (and I) are citizens of DC, nothing special, and the children of Spanish-speakers or long-term residents are no less worthy of DCPS attention.  Good grief.
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If you have learned anything on these boards, it is the rock-solid belief that race doesn't actually matter in the game we're trying to play, it's socioeconomic status.  Schools need a balance socioeconomically.  "Go recruit some white kids" is dinosaur stuff, man.[/quote]

Glad you said this, but wish you'd gone all the way.  Do you know which parents are most discerning on the brown-to-peach and higher SES-to-lower SES tightrope?  I think not, so I'll fill you in: it's the upper-middle AA parents of brown-skinned boys.  Even the most so-called liberal of peach-colored mamas will balk at sending their children to 100% AA schools, and higher SES AA families understand this.

Parents of brown-skinned boys (even when both parents have advanced degrees, i.e., Masters or more) have to be extra careful about what and where is a positive environment.  It's not easy to find a place where diversity means that there are enough higher SES families (of every shade) that expectations aren't low for anyone, a place where diversity doesn't mean that the brown-skinned boy is automatically assumed to be the trouble-maker when an altercation happens, a place where higher SES AA parents can recognize each other as a majority - or at least a plurality - in the population.

I'm not saying you have it wrong for your "rock-solid belief that race doesn't matter" but I am saying that believing it means that you are white.  And it's okay to be white, but you need to understand that your faith in "color-blindness" is a privilege of being white that even higher SES parents of color don't have, especially if they are parents of boys.[/quote]

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