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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I hope Jackson didn't write his own bio... it's full of typos. With that said, I hope he is successful at Amidon-Bowen. It won't be easy to come in with a pending renovation, the newly built day care center (so foolish not to coordinate but that's dcps/dgs for you!) a very economically and racially diverse community, the departure of some very long-tenured staff, and a previous principal who was there for 8 years and thus is the only principal any parents or students are likely to have known.[/quote]

The optics look really bad for them to move a white man into a predominately black school to lead. They should have chosen a black man or a black woman to lead Amidon-Bowen.[/quote]

I don't know who else applied for the job. He might have been the best option. And the school is increasingly diverse. If he can get the test scores up and cope with everything else, that will be wonderful. I don't believe the principal necessarily has to be the same race as the majority of the students, especially if the staff as a whole are diverse.[/quote]

It seems as if the leaders are no longer reflective of the schools unless they are in the NW. Do the parents of some of the lower performing schools get a say? Do they even matter to DCPS? Where are the Black women principals?[/quote]

Oh please.  This is absurd.  You don't know what you are talking about.

The NW schools generally have a diverse set of principals and APs  and may or may not "reflect" the demographics of the school.

DCPS should hire the best people for the job.  When they rank optics too highly, they get themselves in trouble (thinking of you, Princ. Johnson).  Meanwhile, the kids need education and need preparation to live in a diverse world.  Role models of different profiles are great, but the person needs to be good to be a role model.

A particular look plus a title does not make a role model![/quote]

Yes it does. Black boys in particular need to see black men in positions of power. This serves as a role model for them.[/quote]

It's true for all children.  It's just on the old days, there weren't many black men in positions of power for black boys to see.  Same for girls.  There plenty of white boys in DCPS who have never yet had a white male principal.

The point is that all kids in DCPS these days should -- and most likely will -- have principals of different demographics across their time on school.  And that's a good thing.

The world of from the perspective of today's kids looks different than what we saw, if you would observe if you considered their world without your own biases.

tldr; Sure black boys should see black men in positions of power.  That doesn't mean *every* person they see in positions of power needs to be Black male.[/quote]

But white boys see white men who look like them in other positions of power everywhere else. Congress? Mostly white men. Corporate Boardrooms? Mostly white men. Management Boards? Mostly white men. Stock Brokers? Mostly white men. Doctors? Mostly white men. Lawyers? Mostly white men. Walking through many gentrified neighborhoods? Mostly white men. DC Police? Mostly white men. DC Fire & EMS? Mostly white men. Faces on TV? Mostly white men.[/quote]

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