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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When my kids started in DCPS, OOB was code for "black kids."  I can say with some certainty that the OOB white population at Hearst now outnumbers --or at least is equivalent to-- the OOB black population (that's why the school still has high OOB percentages but is now majority white).  What I find completely comical about this whole thing is that people, over the last few  years--at least on this forum-- have gone from OOB vs IB, to EOTP vs WOTP (given that it's not just the little brown kids crossing the park line anymore).
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I think OOB is still code for black kids. And I think that at least some of the IB Hearst families would be more than happy to keep families like mine (white but living EOTP) if they could exclude all the little brown kids, as you put it. I think the concern about class sizes also is code for "too many [disruptive] black kids."

I've listened to IB families shit on Hearst for years now, both before and after they had kids enrolled. What galls me about the attitude about Hearst is that the school may not even exist today without the efforts of the OOB families to get their kids there. And it certainly wouldn't be the strong, improving school that it is today because so much of the hard work in building community and getting funding and providing enrichment, etc. has been led by OOB families. Don't get me wrong; certain IB families are also really involved at Hearst, too.  But they certainly aren't fully responsible for the growth and improvement at Hearst in the last few years. So it truly angers me to hear incoming/lower grade IB families complain about OOB kids and class sizes when a couple of years ago they didn't even consider the school to be a decent option for their kids and never bothered getting involved at the school, either before or after they enrolled.

There may not be much of a divide between OOB and IB kids in the higher grades, but there is in my kid's grade.  OOB kids [i]are [/i]excluded.  OOB parents [i]are [/i]made to feel less welcome. It's getting worse and it sucks, because that's not how the school used to be.[/quote]

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