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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wish they would be way more transparent about admissions and performance of the IB program. Maybe it's great! But there are numbers that exist that could be easily used to show this, if it's actually the case.[/quote]

Well, clearly it's not great if 1% of the kids are passing the math CAPE. But yes, more information would be lovely.[/quote]

If the 1% is the IB program students, then that’s fine. Your kid will be in the group of kids that are actually learning.[/quote]

Not all the time. They will still take electives and participate in clubs and other ECs with the 99% of kids who are below grade level. Really think about what that means, to be in a school environment where the vast majority of students are struggling to meet minimum academic standards. Think how small and limited this will make your child's experience, how limiting it will be in terms of friendships, what it will look like for your kid post HS when so few peers pursue college, when many don't even graduate.

Some families don't have much choice of whether to send their kids to a school like that. But in DC people have a choice. And most parents who really value education will continue to not choose Eastern simply because they want more and better for their kids.[/quote]

I mean … my kid is at a feeder MS for Eastern and I am aware of all of the considerations for his academic needs. But you sound really gross when you write off the less affluent and yes, Black kids, as being basically worthless. I can tell you that my kid is friends with kids of all types and some of those kids you see and worthless have been bright stars for his life. And he has learned to work with and understand all different types of people. I know you’ll claim I am a bad SJW parent but moving him to an all-white affluent school woule be a huge loss in many respects. [/quote]

NP.  You need to get help.  No one is saying black kids are worthless. No one.  All middle schools in the city are diverse and have black kids, some more than other.

Some kids don’t have options and have to take what life gives them and that is the lower SES kids is what PP is saying.

But as a parent, most with options will not send them to such a poorly performing school just because there of more diversity.  They just are not.  It’s not like kids at other schools are not friends with minority kids and can get the same experience either.

Also PP above is absolutely correct.  The experience of your kid will be very different with friends who can’t relate to things, friends who can’t do things, etc…. [/quote]

The reason they won't send them though is because they don't want to interact with lower SES families and then the domino effect happens because almost all UMC families, who do have resources to help the school, leave.

Mann's PTO can literally fund teachers. Lots of Title 1 schools PTOs can maybe afford a couple pizza parties.

The education follows the money, not, as plenty here want to believe, the money follows the education. And you know that because your last sentence is literally we only want to be around other people with money.[/quote]

Mann families are never faced with the choice of whether to send their kids to Eastern. The Eastern feeder elementariness largely have nowhere near the money that Mann does (Maury and Brent might, I don't know, but none of the other schools do for sure). Many of these schools are Title 1. All three feeder MSs are Title 1. So you are accusing families whose kids have attended Title 1 elementary schools and sometimes middle schools of not wanting their kids to interact with lower SES families, because they are choosing not to send their kids to Eastern. It doesn't make sense.

No one knows better than a family who has gone through Eastern feeders what the environment at Eastern is likely to be like. And as one of those families, we are making the choice to send our kids elsewhere. It is not about fear of interacting with low SES families. It's about wanting a HS environment that will actually meet the needs of kids who are academic and college bound. Eastern does not currently offer that, the IB program notwithstanding. Yes, you *can* go through Eastern and then go to college (in fact attending the school may offer a boost in admission to many universities that are seeking to boost the number of students from urban Title 1 HSs) but is it a great choice for most kids? No. Does DC offer a variety of other options college bound kids? Yes, and most people pick one of those.

You can sling accusations of classism and racism if you want, but at the end of the day this really is parents just making the right choice for their kids. Including black families. I don't know a single black family in our cohort with college educated parents who are choosing Eastern. Charters, moving, parochial schools, other privates, yes. Eastern, no. It does not offer a good college prep experience.[/quote]

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