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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just to be clear, there are many middle class people East of the River that seek schools like the ones they may have attended. Parents have the same values as others across DC. They may have degrees and very professional jobs. Some might even have impressive incomes. However, several schools in Wards 7 and 8 don’t meet their criteria. Some do apply for the Latins and West of the Park schools. Some learn about these schools on DCUM. They make the sacrifice to drive across D.C. to schools like some parents travel long distances to private schools.

Establish safe great schools with mixed income students. Parents with low incomes also want the best for their kids and want them to go to schools in safe neighborhoods and to schools where there is not a lot of bullying. They also want schools that can teach all types of students. Some parents have learned how some UMC parents supplement their kids’ education with tutors and enrichment activities but this can get expensive. Welcome all types of students in schools across the District of Columbia without bias.[/quote]

Can I ask about this? I know that there are a couple of microneighborhoods with middle class people like Hillcrest. A couple of gentrifying areas around like Anacostia. A military bases at JBAB. But isn’t EOTR otherwise almost strictly multigenerational poor and 99.9% black? Like there aren’t these UMC families you are talking about. Except as unicorn one-offs. It’s not like in Wards 1/4/5.

So for schools - there aren’t UMC kids to be served there. It’s about serving the intergenerational black poor. I see charters as something these people choose because they see DCPS as having failed. Successful or not but the motivation for charters EOTR isn’t to give suburban experiences to UMC families used to great success who just happen to have settled in the ghetto. It’s for the children of longstanding residents.  [/quote]

I live in one of those micro-neighborhoods you describe. It is majority black but more like 70%/30%. It is predominantly older with people who no longer have school age children. For the ones who do they go to charters, private and DCPS application/selective schools. The charters did provide those micro-neighborhoods with an option they weren’t getting.

I think it’s inaccurate to describe EOTR as generally a “ghetto” that’s 99.9% poor. Keep in mind that just like the rest of the country, DC housing was highly segregated even with deeds restricting the sale of housing to Blacks in some neighborhoods. There was a concentration of Black wealth east of the river. While that has spread across DC (and into Maryland), there are still MC and UMC household EOTR.

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