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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]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]

oh just stop. you were never going to send your kid to Dunbar so myob and focus on your own child. [/quote]

This. Leave Dunbar alone and let them try to uplift and educate the kids who actually go there. I'm speaking as a non-black resident of this neighborhood with kids. Not everyone has to bend over backwards and erase their own history to make a white lady who has NO intention of sending her kids there more comfortable.[/quote]

Unfortunately Dunbar is failing miserably at uplifting and educating black students [/quote]

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