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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The thing is, we want “our” kids segregated from the kids who are dumb and want to hurt them.

We want our kids to feel like excelling is normal and violence is not.

For many kids that simply isn’t true. And I don’t know what you do for them. They end up at schools like Roosevelt and as a result we shun them.

There of course is the usual segregation, racism, classism, and all that. It doesn’t help. I’ve put my kids into a middle school that some would not. I’m willing to go pretty far.

But at the end of the day, I would not let my kid go to a school with open gang activity and that doesn’t teach to kids who can get a 3 on an AP test. It’s too much of a mismatch.

I’ve been in Roosevelt for the foreign service curriculum rundown. Years ago now. It would be something I’d like to have done myself. But how many of these kids could actually complete such a curriculum?

I get the WHY. Trauma and centuries of being treated as subhuman and not being permitted to learn, achieve, and feel safe are terrible. But when it leads to harmful treatment of the people around you, how should the people around you react? Through avoidance, not overreaction, right? I can’t fix a kid’s trauma. My DD certainly can’t. My kid can’t teach yours Algebra. What are reasonable expectations?

The only way I see of changing this amounts to colonization. I’ll call it what it is. It’s things like sticking Coolidge Early College at Coolidge. Making a group within a group that doesn’t have to deal with Black lower class trauma or Central American gang activity and the other myriad problems kids can’t shed when they get to school.

If you get that in there, the edges start to bleed together. Things start to heal. But this won’t start without colonial island analogy school situations.

Hate it but I fail to see more realistic situations emerging when clearly these 99.9% poor minority DCPS schools are being shunned. [/quote]

Clearly this post sounds very reasonable to many DCUM posters, but is based on absolutely zero actual knowledge of what’s going on on the ground.   Maybe before suggesting “colonization” (?!!!!!!) you should spend a few minutes listening to what the people dealing with “[b]lower class[/b] Black trauma” (!!!!!!) actually have to say about their lives.  It certainly isn’t you “colonization.”[/quote]

Can you share what people on the ground think of the early college program at Coolidge?  Do they think the school within a school model is good for the larger school community?[/quote]

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