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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, you're going to have a bunch of non-Black people responding to what they think the experiences of Black students are.  [/quote]

This feels potentially true (white Maury parent here).  Hope we are wrong though and you get helpful answers.  In case not and in case helpful, my kid in 5th has a diverse friend group and when I see them interact in their peer group it all seems focused on their common interests, senses of humor, etc.  From what I can see, their experience isn't an outlier.  The teaching staff is also diverse.  And I'm not sure about going on to Eliot Hine MS but almost all the kids in my kid's class are going there.  Hope parents with direct experiences respond and this helps bump up your question![/quote]

Is this really true? My kid is in 5th grade at a very similar school in many respects and I am actually struck by how racially divided friend groups are — AA and white/otherr. There are a few UMC Black kids who straddle both groups and who also have their own little social group, but otherwise it is pretty divided along racial and economic lines. Now it’s a friendly school and all of the kids seem to get along fine. There are plenty of mixed race bigger parties. But smaller parties/sleepovers? Pretty divided.

I find it really noticeable because I went to a diverse school growing up, but where race and economics were not so linked and there was not similar racial separation. Because the UMC Black kids are part of both groups, I think it’s SES/class primarily driving it, but it’s apparent.

Anyway, genuinely curious if this is less true at Maury? [/quote]

The UMC black kids are performing a complex dance of social calibration, the sort of which becomes exhausting and ultimately futile. Life is much easier where there is easy, consistent overlap between your racial and SES group. For UMC blacks, this is never the case in DC public schools — almost universally true for white folks. Social straddling of the sort required by UMC black kids in such environments is just a necessary chore. [/quote]

Shepherd, Banneker, Duke Ellington?[/quote]

Charter schools. Dcps doesn’t actually teach black or brown students. [/quote]

None of the three schools listed above are charters.[/quote]

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