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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What cynical arguments. Why not just learn from how Brent is pulling this off and try to replicate? There’s no shortage of Title 1 schools with better buildings than Brent’s, even just on CH, e.g. Payne, Monet JO Wilson.  [/quote]

Ok, but then:

(1) What is Brent doing that other schools should be doing? No one can explain it beyond the demographic issues and having an unusually good principal. How do you replicate that?

(2) What do all the schools that don't have better buildings than Brent do?

I'm with the poster above who said that putting this all on individual schools is going to create a massive political problem for DCPS. Richer schools with nicer facilities will figure it out, and poorer schools in ancient buildings will not, and the existing inequities are just going to get worse and worse.

Bring back bussing.[/quote]

wtf do demographics have to do with it? seriously. [/quote]

It is easier to reopen a school for students whose parents don't work out of the house, who don't have to take public transportation to work/school, who don't have as many behavioral issues related to poverty. It's easier to convince teachers to come to work with these students. It's easier to have a well-funded PTA if most of your parents are UMC, and it's easier for a well-funded PTA to pay for facility improvements, PPE, and other safety measures, which will, again, make it easier to convince teachers to come back. It's easier to communicate with parents if they are mostly from the same socio-economic class, live in the same neighborhood, and largely have similar lifestyles and values. It's easier to get those parents to agree to a plan of action.

Should I go on? Demographics are huge. Brent is a majority white, majority UMC, school in a city that is majority POC with endemic poverty issues. This is ALL about demographics.[/quote]

I mean, there are a bunch of other schools with extremely similar demographics that haven’t done this. So I think you have some weird agenda. My guess is that Brent parents are just more confident with expertise, they have a great principal, and they probably do care about their small FARMS population. Anyway they are acting as role models for all other elementary schools, so even if they are operating with some privilege, it’s a good use of it. [/quote]

My “weird agenda” is that my kid does not go to a school with these demographics. I know some people think DCUM only has rich white people on here, but that’s actually a small minority of DC parents (especially public school parents) and the rest of us also care about this issue.

I think the actual weird agenda is the one that sees what Brent is doing and says, “How can we replicate this at the handful of other majority-white, UMC schools in the city?” and then gets mad when people keep bringing up that actually this is the population least hurt by school closures and maybe that shouldn’t be our focus.[/quote]

I'm really struggling to see how you think this framework is in any way progressive.  "Only white schools can reopen - predominately minority schools should not try to replicate what the white schools are doing."[/quote]

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