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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The racial achievement gap is astounding.

According to http://www.dcpcsb.org/sites/default/files/dems2.pdf there were about 93 African American kids in charters in the district who scored a 5 on math and about 91 white kids, despite white kids only making up 6% of the student body at charters in those grades.  In ELA, there were more white kids than black ones who scored a 5, even though whites are 5% of the enrollment (I don't know why whites were 5% for ELA and 6% for math).  Is it just that well-off AA students go private and well-off white students use charters?    [/quote]

This is quite alarming. As a mother of a black boy at a "highly regarded" charter I am concerned. My DC is smart and we have decent income ($250) but not enough to comfortably afford private. [/quote]

[b]Stop being an alarmist[/b]. With your resources to provide tutoring and extras, your child will be fine. You have the same resources to provide for your child that the affluent white parents provide for their children, kumon, Huntington, khan academy, sylvan, etc. It's just that your AA child's high numbers will be knocked out by three AA children who are poor and unable to receive tutoring, etc.  I don't think you can make a fair comparison. I am sure that my child's individual scores are 4s and 5s, but when the numbers come out, his numbers will mean very little when lumped in with all the poor AA children in this city.  [/quote]

The bigger issue is that you high achieving boy will be surrounded by peers are not high-achieving, which 1) could drag down your boy's motivation to succeed, and 2) could mean that teachers/others set the same low expectations for your boy that they give the other boys in his class.[/quote]

Now I have thought about that, and so far that has not been the case. Of course I am watching and will definitely reassess if I find what you mentioned occurring.  He just started fifth grade at Latin and I love the school's curriculum. I'm hoping it can take him all the way through with continued high expectations. I could use any money that I would have spent on private school for college.   :D[/quote]

Not being an alarmist at all. Let's take your school, Latin. Latin had 2 black kids score advanced in math and 6 that scored advanced in English. Only 48 poor students at Latin (129 black). Don't you think the non poor students at Latin have those things at their disposal as well? My high income black friends that go WOTP go to schools like Lafayette and Murch (also had  only1-4 black students score advanced). Even if you assume that all 48 FARM students are black (which you can't), that leaves 81 non poor black students and only 2 kids that were advanced from that pool. Those numbers are not good. [/quote]

Yes the white black achievement gap cannot be completely explained by ses.  lots of complex factors like expectations of peers and teachers.  self identity. ect. [/quote]

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