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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Both episodes rang true to me.  Sure, there were some communications issues that the Principal should have helped with. But there was so much other stuff that this shed light on.

The way the children responded to questions- thinking that the mere presence of white people changed the status of the school.  The way the existing parents expressed that the school was good prior to the new kids arriving. The assumption that the changes in the school would be wanted by all the families. This plays out so many times in the DC elementary school scene.

And the second episode, where parents truly and honestly wanted to help, wanted to be a part of the solution, believed in the mission- in theory- but when the rubber met the road... opted out. Again... this plays out so much in DC.

I am not sure what the answer is.. and I dont think that white parents are the whole problem.. but the observations are true and happening as we speak in our city.[/quote]

You may not like the answers of the children in that first episode, but there happened to be some truth to what they said.

There was a PP earlier in the thread who had sent a child to that school.  According to the PP, the school was about to be closed.

The arrival of Rob and his cohort of white families solved that issue.  Now, could the school have limped along and recovered a different way?  Maybe?  Possibly?  But with the arrival of that cohort the school didn't have to worry about its survival anymore.

I think some credit needs to be given to those families there for choosing to reverse the trend.  They literally helped save the school.

They also, for good or for bad, helped change the status of the school.  The school somehow managed to reverse white flight.  The middle school is 47% white in a public school district that's 15% white.  The high school is still 41% black/29% Hispanic, but if things continue to trend in this direction it may become a majority white school, for good or bad.

How many times have you seen that happen?

I'm sure we'll hear more about it from the series.[/quote]

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