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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would disagree that CM is diverse, despite what others think.  White population is disproportionately high (suspiciously so, some would say) - unless your comparison is the Ward 3 schools.  Anyway, proves my point that DCUMers continue to look down on majority AA schools that are tier 1 - or climbing (like IT) yet consider schools without any real record to be highly regarded. Is this because of their demographics, one has to wonder? Personally, I want ALL of the schools to be successful because different kids need different things.  I do not believe that just because, for example, YY is considered a HRCS that it is the right place for all kids.  And, I think YY has a great program but it would not be the right place for my kids.[/quote]

What a bizarre and untrue.  GGW listed the top 10 diverse charter schools in the city. CM was 5th.  Use facts not rumors from DCUM. [/quote]

Diverse in this case did not mean "representative of the city" but the opposite, which is why CM is being dinged. [/quote]

Based on many of the conversations around here as well as the recent Erich Martel WaPo article, some people seem to want to think "diverse" is strictly about racial minority majority and in some cases go even further to suggest more specifically that it means majority-AA and AA run.  They think a school that is 25% white is "too white" and "not diverse" enough.[/quote]

Martel is crazy and his stats were wrong from the get go about almost everything.  In terms of charters, you have to also think about the almost completely AA charters (KIPPs etc) who are subtracting from the available AA public school population, and then you have to think about people like us, who would have moved out of the city had we not gotten into the charter of our choice which goes through high school, and the not so small number of white parents who are now putting their kids in charters instead of private schools.

Only 87% of eligible IB students attend Deal.  Where are the rest?  In private or in charters.  What I am saying is that there are a lot of shifts going on he did not take into account and to start from the premise that a school can be "too white" "too Latino" or "too AA" is ridiculous.  How many white kids go to Roots?  The thing I think he should have been focused on is the charters that have very few poor kids - but even that may just be a function of the random lottery.  Nevertheless, if I were to focus on something suspicious it would be how Latin has almost 40% FARMS in the high school and less than 20% in their middle school.  But even there, the high school part can be explained by the fact that many parents traditionally have pulled their kids to go to Walls or privates at Latin after MS.  I do find the MS FARMS rate astonishing though - it is lower than Deal, and  lower than any school except for the Deal ES feeders and Mann and Key.  The only way that can happen (and I would never accuse Latin of doing their lottery unfairly) is through a huge number of high SES applicants and sibling preference for high SES families who already have a child there.

Anyway, part of the entire point of charters was that they were not designed to serve the entire community.  But it does make me kind of sad when I see less poor AA kids having the opportunity to go to Latin - but then less kids period (in terms of the number of applicants) have the opportunity to go there now than even three years ago.

But trust me, Martel is a wacko, he was apparently a crappy teacher at Wilson (one of his students posted), and Matthews should have been fired for being able to hide behind Martel's "statistics" which meant he did not have to check that any of them were accurate.  If you read the comments after these articles people refute every single point he tried to make, and Matthews has worked for the Post for over 40 years and lives in California.... garbage in garbage out, except a lot of the comments in response to the articles were extremely educational.[/quote]

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