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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was too leery of ESS to send my own AA DC there. I wasn’t alone in our pre-school cohort. Now that the kids are at TPMS together, I’m seeing some great achievement out of DC’s peers who were at ESS. [b]That said, nearly all are African or Caribbean immigrants, not African American. The parents are often well-educated in their home countries and have a great network of support that they call on to help the kids. [/b]One of DC’s best friends has Skype tutoring with an uncle in Paris!

I would like to see the county disagregate the data to distinguish between black students who are first or second gen AA and those who had grandparents that grew up under Jim Crow. I think there’s likely a disparity in outcomes there. If so, tailored responses should be put in place.

There are also a lot of kids hidden in the MU category (for two or more races) that have the same ancestry as other kids registered as AA. My own child has been categorized in both by MCPS at two different times. I think that impacts the data as well, taking out high flyers who might self-identify as AA, regardless of what their parents put on the form when they entered MCPS at 5 years old.[/quote]

I mean, that's actually the bulk of Black kids at ESS. I have put two kids through that school, and most years the class was maybe 20-25% white, 25% Hispanic, 40-45% first or second generation Black American (mostly East African), and 10% multi-generational Black American.

It's just hard to talk about because we lack good language in the US for differentiating between Black Americans who are descended from slaves and Black Americans who are recent immigrants. These groups have some similarities and some differences, and too often discussions of those differences descend into tacit racism against the "wrong" kind of Black folks.

My own kids fell into the 40%, but adopted, which makes us particularly aware of the ways in which our kids experience privilege, but their privilege won't protect them in a traffic stop. [/quote]

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