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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]DCPS is a district focused primarily on the growth and success of low-income children of color. From leadership down that is the priority, [b]and it should be[/b].[/quote]

Explain to me why a school system should focus primarily upon on one socio-economic and ethnic group. Other jurisdictions like Arlington,  Alexandria, MCPS, and Fairfax somehow seem to manage to care about ALL learners. [/quote]

Because inequality is horrible for society overall, yes even for you.

I'm a European immigrant (but not Anglo) who is disgusted with continuing segregation and imprisonment of a significant portion of the US population. I want my kids to benefit from fair competition where the brightest minds can apply their talents and efforts to better society, not a system that suppresses such talent based on random and inconsequential (to quality) attribute, such as skin color, gender, accent, religion, sexual orientation, to name a few.

Do people really not get it or just pretend not to get it? SMH[/quote]

Most whites believe that those other groups don’t contain the best or brightest. See how DCUM uses “white” as a proxy for UMC. If you’re really European but not Anglo, then you must be aware of this racism yourself, because it’s rampant in Europe also. Or are you just pretending it doesn’t exist?[/quote]

Of course I am aware, that's why I mentioned I wasn't Anglo. But I can't figure out if they are that stupid, honestly. I mean, you get on an airplane, chances of seeing a white male in the cockpit are like 90%. By statistical definition that means the people who could have been best pilots are not flying the plane. (The airplane example is both a direct one and a metaphor for pretty much anything where you life is impacted by others--teachers, doctors, any leaders.) Do they really not realize systemic racism/sexism/other discrimination is detrimental to their well being (in addition to being catastrophic for the repressed groups)? Or do they just pretend not to realize it, en masse?[/quote]

PS It's not as bad in Europe compared to the US, which you can see in overall inequality stats and incarceration rates. Also Europe had to reckon with nazism with paying reparations to victims of WW2, and German kids today have an extensive educational program to make sure they are fully aware of their history and ways to prevent it repeating. NO such broad recognition of the scale and depth of atrocities committed  through slavery has ever been given in the US, to say nothing of reparations that should be instituted (but never will?).[/quote]

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