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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We're PK parents targeting Shepherd next year.

I'm honestly turned off by Janney (and AU park) due to its disconnect with the city's racial makeup. There's something really odd to me about a kid going to public school in a city that's 50% black and only having 9% of the school's population of that color. We're white, but I want my kid to understand that the world around him is not all like him.

With regards to "diversity," part of the reason we do like Shepherd is that there is true economic diversity in the school (33% FARMS), with a fair portion in the middle-to-high income part of the spectrum. This is an on-going debate here, but I think that level of financial stability leads to more engaged parents, better student performance, better student behavior, and an all-around better educational experience for all of the kids. But its not like it's a school of rich brats.[/quote]

And I'm honestly turned off by the growing comfort with white loathing on DCUM, often by people who say they're white.

Here are facts:

Janney has 71% of its students whose parents state that the kids are "all 100% white."  It has 29% percent of kids whose parents say their kids' skin is not white, and has different pretty colors that are not white:  black,, black and white, yellow and white, russet and white, black and yellow, yellow and russet. Whatever.

Sheperd has 80% of its students whose parents state their kids are "all 100% black."  It has 20% of children whose skin color does not line up with the 80% dominant color of skin.  [b]That's 20% non-dominant pretty colors at Sheperd, compared to 29% non-dominant pretty colors at Janney.[/b]

So using facts, which are often inconvenient and uncomfortable in these kinds of breezy, acceptable anti-whte comments, we see that the reviled Janney has more skin tone diversity than Sheperd.  You cannot dispute this.

[as an aside, Sheperd is 80%  black in a city whose population is about 48% black at this time.   Why is that not "imbalanced" for PP?  It's only imbalanced when the white piece of the enrollment pie is outsized, but it's [u]not[/u] imbalanced when the black piece of the enrollment pie is outsized, as with Sheperd.  Correct, PP? ]

So comments like PPs really distill down to, eh, I don't want to be around white folk.

-- a multiracial observer of DCUM protocol.   Who is often assumed to be Greek, or maybe Egyptian, but in fact is neither and has a little black and a little white in her.
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Since we're getting into the weeds, Shepherd is more diverse in the lower grades--how diverse is Janney in the lower grades?

Overall, I'd argue that 20 vs. 29% are comparable in terms of diversity.  To argue otherwise seems to be somewhat splitting hairs.[/quote]

I would add that taking it a step further, one might argue that the diversity of the neighborhood (not socio economic here, just straight up racial demographics) also feeds into the overall character of the school.

The term upper caucausia comes to mind. I am white; I want my children raised in a neighborhood and to attend a school that has some resemblance to society.  JKLM doesn't offer that.  [/quote]

Ok, purported "white" person who doesn't want to be around white people.  You're wrong again.  Ward 3 actually has some decent "skin color" diversity.  Which you would know if you ever left Columbia heights or petworth.

After careful consideration and reviewing dcum closely, I am convinced that the many young, often newer-to-DC posters like the above have never actually spent any time in 20015, 20008 or 20016. [/quote]

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