Reply to SWS -- Atmosphere and Leadership

Forum Index » DC Public and Public Charter Schools

Reply to "SWS -- Atmosphere and Leadership"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am a 5+ year parent at SWS.  I am grateful that my kids got into and go to this school.  At the same time, I am unhappy with the school's efforts around diversity.

I have talked to the principal on numerous occasions and received the same 'oh well - what can you do?' type response.  Given another option for a school, we would take it.  SWS has slid by on a lot of things because parents were happy on some levels with the education.  I hope this most recent surge in voices questioning practices will result in some changes.

I used to buy in to the AA parents wanted different educational approaches for their children.  I don't anymore - AA parents ranging from the security guard to others have commented that if they'd known about this school, they would have applied.  There is a lot the school could be doing to reach out to AA parents - for starters, specifically asking current AA parents to volunteer at open houses, DCPS events and the MOTH school info night.   Let's not give the school a pass.[/quote]

I've just skimmed this thread, but anybody finding it reminiscent of the thread on CMI and its lack of diversity in both staff and student body a few weeks ago?  Down to the comments about lack of diversity at open houses, reasons put forth by defenders for said lack of diversity, etc.  Not sure if both are examples of DC schools that, either by design or inattentiveness to the issue, are less diverse than perhaps they could be, or whether all of it is overblown.  [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics