Anonymous
02/28/2019 15:06
Subject: Anybody listening to NPR?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: Oh wow, listening right now--what a tough account from the young lady who described the loneliness and discrimination she and others experienced being one of the very few visible minority students at Whitman.
Yes-- she said if she'd known in advance what she knows now about being a student of color at Whitman, she would have transferred to a different school. I thought that was really sad.
Keep in mind that this is also true of students of other races who are "in the minority" in schools in other parts of the county. It's often hard for those students to fit in, as well.
I'm hard pressed to think of a school anywhere in MCPS where a white child would be in as much of a minority as a Black kid in some of the west county schools. Whitman has so few Black kids that they don't even register statistically. Is there a school in MCPS where white kids are in that much of a minority? Kennedy may be the only one.
My kid goes to one for elementary school. So far she's been fine but is only in kindergarten.
Here's an ES where white is <5%., but the HS is a different story.
https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/regulatoryaccountability/glance/currentyear/schools/02788.pdf
Where at Whitman HS , there are <5% Blacks
https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/regulatoryaccountability/glance/currentyear/schools/04427.pdf
Anonymous
02/28/2019 15:01
Subject: Anybody listening to NPR?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: Oh wow, listening right now--what a tough account from the young lady who described the loneliness and discrimination she and others experienced being one of the very few visible minority students at Whitman.
Yes-- she said if she'd known in advance what she knows now about being a student of color at Whitman, she would have transferred to a different school. I thought that was really sad.
Keep in mind that this is also true of students of other races who are "in the minority" in schools in other parts of the county. It's often hard for those students to fit in, as well.
I'm hard pressed to think of a school anywhere in MCPS where a white child would be in as much of a minority as a Black kid in some of the west county schools. Whitman has so few Black kids that they don't even register statistically. Is there a school in MCPS where white kids are in that much of a minority? Kennedy may be the only one.
My kid goes to one for elementary school. So far she's been fine but is only in kindergarten.
Anonymous
02/28/2019 14:54
Subject: Anybody listening to NPR?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: Oh wow, listening right now--what a tough account from the young lady who described the loneliness and discrimination she and others experienced being one of the very few visible minority students at Whitman.
Yes-- she said if she'd known in advance what she knows now about being a student of color at Whitman, she would have transferred to a different school. I thought that was really sad.
Keep in mind that this is also true of students of other races who are "in the minority" in schools in other parts of the county. It's often hard for those students to fit in, as well.
I'm hard pressed to think of a school anywhere in MCPS where a white child would be in as much of a minority as a Black kid in some of the west county schools. Whitman has so few Black kids that they don't even register statistically. Is there a school in MCPS where white kids are in that much of a minority? Kennedy may be the only one.
Anonymous
02/28/2019 14:29
Subject: Anybody listening to NPR?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: Oh wow, listening right now--what a tough account from the young lady who described the loneliness and discrimination she and others experienced being one of the very few visible minority students at Whitman.
Yes-- she said if she'd known in advance what she knows now about being a student of color at Whitman, she would have transferred to a different school. I thought that was really sad.
Keep in mind that this is also true of students of other races who are "in the minority" in schools in other parts of the county. It's often hard for those students to fit in, as well.
Anonymous
02/28/2019 14:27
Subject: Anybody listening to NPR?
Anonymous wrote: Oh wow, listening right now--what a tough account from the young lady who described the loneliness and discrimination she and others experienced being one of the very few visible minority students at Whitman.
My nieces (nonwhite) who lived in another state when to a school where there were only a handful of kids of their race. They *HATED* it. I vowed never to allow my kids to go through that.
Anonymous
02/28/2019 14:13
Subject: Anybody listening to NPR?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: Oh wow, listening right now--what a tough account from the young lady who described the loneliness and discrimination she and others experienced being one of the very few visible minority students at Whitman.
Yes-- she said if she'd known in advance what she knows now about being a student of color at Whitman, she would have transferred to a different school. I thought that was really sad.
Not sure if MCPS is waking up to this problem and willing to fix the hate in schools. In the past, students who complained were offered COSAs (Change of School Assignments) as if that fixed what was wrong in the school. All those types of tactics did was left more students vulnerable to similar acts of hate.
Anonymous
02/28/2019 14:04
Subject: Anybody listening to NPR?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: Oh wow, listening right now--what a tough account from the young lady who described the loneliness and discrimination she and others experienced being one of the very few visible minority students at Whitman.
Yes-- she said if she'd known in advance what she knows now about being a student of color at Whitman, she would have transferred to a different school. I thought that was really sad.
PP and agree that was really sad. I’m black and have also attended predominantly white schools at times in my life, although it sounds like not as homogenous as Whitman. My own young child attends a fairly diverse private. I felt for this young lady.
Anonymous
02/28/2019 13:28
Subject: Anybody listening to NPR?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:They are covering MCPS boundaries. Can be boundary changes correct all the inequalities between students? It all sounds great but will it work?
Let me make a prediction: NPR believes that boundary changes would correct all inequalies, promote world peace and also fix climate change.
How about you listen to the show?
https://thekojonnamdishow.org/shows/2019-02-28/kojo-roadshow-a-town-hall-on-school-diversity-in-montgomery-county
She is not far off...though climate change was not specifically mentioned.
Anonymous
02/28/2019 13:07
Subject: Anybody listening to NPR?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:They are covering MCPS boundaries. Can be boundary changes correct all the inequalities between students? It all sounds great but will it work?
Let me make a prediction: NPR believes that boundary changes would correct all inequalies, promote world peace and also fix climate change.
How about you listen to the show?
https://thekojonnamdishow.org/shows/2019-02-28/kojo-roadshow-a-town-hall-on-school-diversity-in-montgomery-county
Anonymous
02/28/2019 13:05
Subject: Anybody listening to NPR?
Anonymous wrote: Oh wow, listening right now--what a tough account from the young lady who described the loneliness and discrimination she and others experienced being one of the very few visible minority students at Whitman.
Yes-- she said if she'd known in advance what she knows now about being a student of color at Whitman, she would have transferred to a different school. I thought that was really sad.
Anonymous
02/28/2019 13:04
Subject: Anybody listening to NPR?
Anonymous wrote:They are covering MCPS boundaries. Can be boundary changes correct all the inequalities between students? It all sounds great but will it work?
Let me make a prediction: NPR believes that boundary changes would correct all inequalies, promote world peace and also fix climate change.
Anonymous
02/28/2019 13:01
Subject: Anybody listening to NPR?
Oh wow, listening right now--what a tough account from the young lady who described the loneliness and discrimination she and others experienced being one of the very few visible minority students at Whitman.
Anonymous
02/28/2019 12:51
Subject: Anybody listening to NPR?
The views are so different then many on DCUM
Anonymous
02/28/2019 12:40
Subject: Re:Anybody listening to NPR?
Well this topic has never been discussed before here....
Anonymous
02/28/2019 12:39
Subject: Anybody listening to NPR?
They are covering MCPS boundaries. Can be boundary changes correct all the inequalities between students? It all sounds great but will it work?