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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

When you are talking to parents that have their kids at an Eastern feeder for MS, to remotely suggest they don't want their kids at a school with Black or lower SES kids is laughable. This attitude is what drives people out of DCPS entirely. It's like when my coworkers with kids in the Whitman pyramid lecture me for being concerned about the lack of tracking in DCPS MSes outside of math and (sometimes) ELA. GTFO.[/quote]

I actually said nothing about race. But the OP pretty blatantly said other kids "can't relate" so yes there's a clear SES issue at play at a lot of schools like Eastern. As higher SES kids leave, parents get gun shy about being the only ones left and that sets off a mad dash of higher performing kids.

I'm not saying Eastern is perfect, but there's absolutely SES prisoner's dilemma that happens at more diverse socioeconomic schools. There are whole threads on here about how terrible the J-R principal is and the drug problems at Hardy and MacArthur. And yet UMC families in other feeders are Hunger Games style lotterying for spots because since they're in predominantly wealthy areas there's the assumption that you'll always have a pipeline of UMC and wealthy kids and families and thus test scores won't drop and kids will have peer hobbies.

I'm not judging people who are weary of other DCPS HSs I'm simply stating that there is obviously an underlying SES impact at play here and causes issues for both families and the schools themselves.[/quote]

Of course there is an SES issue at play, but that's not the same thing as saying that a PP "do[es]n't want to interact with lower SES families". That is an insane accusation for someone at an Eastern MS feeder (newsflash: all have substantial lower SES populations to majority lower SES populations) and has very different connotations than your "not judging" follow up post.[/quote]

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