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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How much diversity is there in the teaching ranks? How many white kids in the other grades?

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This is actually something I'm not thrilled with. There is very limited diversity in the teaching ranks. We have a lot of young white women teaching. I was complaining about this to my father (who teaches in a university department that sees a lot of elementary education majors), and he basically told me that it wasn't fair to hold the school accountable for the demographics of the profession.

The lower grades are more diverse. The upper grades are diverse in that they have decent splits of African American kids, Latino kids, and a small but not insignificant population of Asian kids of various extractions, but no white kids above first as far as I'm aware.[/quote]

Which school is this? I'm married to a Vietnamese man so I can only guess -- PG county and the only Asians are Vietnamese.[/quote]

I'm not going to name the school, sorry.[/quote]

Not sure it's fair to complain about "young white women" teaching.  My daughter is a very young, very white teacher in a DC school.   She is a fantastic teacher who worked primarily with at-risk kids before she accepted a job in DC.  The kids in her old school were mostly in school as a condition of their release from either juvenile or jail.  That's where her heart is. While I'm sure there are benefits to having more diversity among teachers, at the end of the day it's the teaching that matters.  My daughter graduated Summa Cum Laude from a very well known university.  She could be teaching anywhere.  She has chosen to work with kids who need the most help.[/quote]

OP here.

My issue with the vast majority of our teachers being "young white women" is that I think it would be helpful for the students - particularly the boys - to have at least one teacher in their elementary school experience who looks like them - for the same reasons that people complain that DCPS isn't diverse enough (want good representative samples of population, think it's isolating to be the only one, etc.). I wish that we provided better incentives for young men (particularly young men of color) to teach. It's not the fault of the people in the profession that other people don't go into the profession.

What your daughter is doing is great. I hope you tell her how proud you are often.[/quote]

What difference does it make, we don't demand Asian teachers and are whopping all the other minority's academically. [/quote]

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