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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]I don’t blame you, PP—I think a lot of schools that are like 99% black/Latino face these issues.  It supports why boundaries should be redrawn when possible so that schools are not this segregated.[/b] [/quote]

I think you mean mostly low income. Your statement is racist on its core. See Banneker, Shepherd (a few years ago).[/quote]

Agree. We are a UMC Latino family. Our children are extremely high scoring and well behaved. We don’t smoke pot. None of their black friends have these issues either... and some are even OOB!! Gasp! The horror![/quote]

I'm the bolded PP.  Perhaps I typed too quickly and I wasn't clear.  In DC, due to the effects of institutional racism and concentrated poverty, schools that are 99% minority are mostly low-SES, often highly traumatized kids with lots of family, environmental, and poverty-related stressors.  The issues mentioned by a PP that pulled her kids out reflect that.  I was [u]not[/u] suggesting that these issues are reflective of anything fundamental about these racial/ethnic groups at all.  Which is why I think school systems try to continue a legacy of desegregation.  They try to minimize the inequities in the system by drawing school boundaries in such a way that maximizes integration, when possible to do so.

*As for Banneker and Shepherd, they're unicorns in the city--Banneker is an application school, and Shepherd is really the only DCPS school that draws middle/upper middle class black families in significant numbers.  They're special cases that don't reflect the general situation in majority minority DC schools.
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DP here. I understood what you meant the first time and I agree with you. Some posters are far too quick to cry racism when in fact you're pointing out the actual racism. It's hard to have a productive discussion with these outlandish accusations. [/quote]

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