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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][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]

Imagine some school in Nebraska putting “retvrn” (as close to Sankofa as it gets in spirit from the supremacist brigades) and “pride” at the bottom, and you’ll roughly get how everyone not black feels when they see the language. We get the message, whether they carefully counted out 14 words or not.[/quote]

It is really disingenuous to equate Sankofa which is a Ghanaian word that basicaly means to reflect on the past with the goal of improving the future with white supremacist tropes like retvrn and the ok symbol. [/quote]

And Robert e Lee just loved Virginia [/quote]

Most reasonable people would not equate these concepts. If that is how you see it then you are a lost cause.[/quote]

There are multiple people posting up and down here about how we equate white and black supremacism, and know it when we see it. Black power in dc is, generally speaking, pretty supremacist in language and action, and just generally antagonistic to anyone who doesn’t look the part. There are good historical reasons for that, but you can’t blame people for reading the signal to stay away loud and clear, and then staying away. [/quote]

This is all a completely imagined scenario designed to make UMC a little more comfortable by having another external target for their internal anxiety about their children. I promise you that any white child enrolled at Dunbar would he welcomed and if you set foot in their as a white parent everyone would be exceedingly kind and helpful. I know this because my child goes to a 90% black school and I have not one single time felt anything other than totally welcomed.[/quote]

I felt unwelcome visiting the tables at EdFest. I was new to DC and trying to learn about my family's in bound schools. The message I got from the tables was basically like "why would you even want to go here?"

I later learned a little more context and that the schools had been burned before wasting time and energy on non title one families who tour and don't attend or just do PK and leave. But at some point it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy.[/quote]

My guess is they knew you wouldn’t send your kid there.  I don’t even think Dunbar teachers would send their kids there.  Anyone with choice doesn’t send their kid to Dunbar.[/quote]

My guess is PP has a very low threshold for feeling “unwelcome” and was likely projecting. [/quote]

They literally said "why would you even want to go here?" [/quote]

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