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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]THIS. All the kids tend to get shortchanged without a good cohort of middle-class neighborhood parents onboard to push back against crappy management practices.[/quote]

You should listen the Nice White Parents Serial Podcast. It is basically about the long history of white parents trying to be saviors.

Also, do you think that schools fail in places with high poverty because of bad management and not, for instance, a whole host of other issues? If only Jack Welsh was running the schools all those poor kids would be at Mann or Lafayette. [/quote]

This thread started with people butt hurt at those who won't send their kids to the school. Can you make up your mind?[/quote]

That's actually the main takeaway from the podcast. Since the inception of that school white parents have been able to drive the location, offerings, direction of the school and then when push came to shove they didn't actually send their kids there. It happened decade after decade. The reporter went back to the records to read letters to the school board from the beginning and tracked down some of those families.

The PP to whom I responded came in with (another) white savior post suggesting that if UMC parents pushed administrators everything would change. What the Podcast documents is one school's experience with that mentality.

So, maybe turn down the snark? [/quote]

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