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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I try to defend DCPS when I came but I have no earthly clue why it took them 6 months to update the school profiles. They did the school count day census thing back in October. In general I find it really embarrassing that DCPS with its behemoth of a central office also can't be bothered to set up up websites for each school and so it falls to the school prinicpal or PTA or teachers to manage that. Almost every other school in the DMV has individual school websites. [/quote]

Central Office is a hot mess, and their turnover rate makes the turnover rate of DCPS teachers seem low.

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow--Oyster is only 7% Black!  I think that's the lowest percentage in all of DCPS...which is surprising because the school touts its racial diversity.  Several years ago, I think the percentage of Black students at Oyster was at 12 or 13%.[/quote]

Oyster is 61% Hispanic.  It probably doesn't even account for the international diversity there, or among the other white and maybe even black kids.  Why is diversity defined as sufficiently "African American?"  [/quote]

Agree. Agree. Agree.

We need to move beyond "Diversity=black" mentality. [/quote]

If you want to know what diversity looks like, look to the charters.  Many charters have a far bigger mix of kids from different races, cultures, heritages and economic levels.[/quote]

This is only true for mostly higher performing charters in NW (and maybe Yu Ying). If you look at charters in SE or deep in NE, their demographics match surrounding DC schools.
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