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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What makes it difficult for black families at Powell? The understand that the school is much more Hispanic than most of DC. Is that part of it?[/quote]

No. The Hispanic majority isn’t the issue. The issue is that  Black kids socialized in a more urban environment don’t interact well with the “gentrifying” Black kids and the administration is ill equipped to provide a safe learning environment. [/quote]

What school do you belive to be best for gentrifying black families or families of black children?[/quote]

I work in an office of almost all upperclass black families in DC, everything single one of them moved to burbs when their kids started school or put them privates in DC.  Upper class black families have fled DC schools way faster than white families in the last 15 years.   [b]UC black families don't want their kids lumped in with the more lower class black kids and their legit behavioral and learning issues.[/b]   [b]White families seem to just lump this all in as "diversity" and think its good for their kids, until about 4th grade.[/b]  [/quote]

We aren't a "black family" by its definition as one parent is another race, but both points are true. My mom sent us to an OOB school (West) and we both went to privates in Montgomery County.[/quote]

“UC” Black NW DC family here.  Our issue at the Title 1 DCPS we left wasn’t being lumped in with the other Black students. It was the bullying, taunting, and threats of violence our kids received from the other Black children because they were different and the school did not seem to have effective ways, for instance positive discipline, to control or discipline the students. These were for grades beyond third. I think pre-third grade things are different. There were NO white students in our kids’ classroom post 3rd grade by the way, whereas pre-k through first had a number of them. We’ve also heard that Deal is great—if your kid isn’t Black—because of the social concerns and pressure. [/quote]

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