Anonymous
Post 06/11/2020 13:31     Subject: Integrated Schools
Anonymous wrote:Schools will be more integrated if neighborhoods were more integrated, or if school zones were determined on bases other than geography (choice sets, lotteries, etc.). Neither is easy.

There is also only so integrated a school can be when DC's child population, especially the older ones, are not that diverse (12-17 year olds in 2018 were 62% black, 16% Hispanic, and 17% white).


And when 40-50% of kids in wards 3 and 4 attend private schools.
Anonymous
Post 06/11/2020 13:31     Subject: Integrated Schools
Anonymous wrote:People using their neighborhood schools instead of charters would help. There are plenty of integrated neighborhoods in DC, white people just don’t want to send their kids to the local school.


The majority of charter and OOB students are Black and Latino; apparently, they don't want to use their neighborhood schools, either. This is a problem that is endemic to DCPS across the race spectrum (WOTP excluded).
Anonymous
Post 06/11/2020 13:29     Subject: Integrated Schools
Schools will be more integrated if neighborhoods were more integrated, or if school zones were determined on bases other than geography (choice sets, lotteries, etc.). Neither is easy.

There is also only so integrated a school can be when DC's child population, especially the older ones, are not that diverse (12-17 year olds in 2018 were 62% black, 16% Hispanic, and 17% white).
Anonymous
Post 06/11/2020 13:28     Subject: Integrated Schools
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:What do you define as an integrated school?


Studies I've read define a segregated school as one where >80% of the students are minority. So I interpret that to mean that any school that is more than 20% white is integrated.

The vast majority of non-integrated schools in DC are of all or almost all black students.
Anonymous
Post 06/11/2020 13:26     Subject: Integrated Schools
Anonymous wrote:What do you define as an integrated school?


Studies I've read define a segregated school as one where >80% of the students are minority. So I interpret that to mean that any school that is more than 20% white is integrated.
Anonymous
Post 06/11/2020 12:47     Subject: Integrated Schools
Some of the schools are already integrated schools.

It starts with DCPS getting its act together to provide minimally adequate quality and differentiation.
Anonymous
Post 06/11/2020 12:47     Subject: Integrated Schools
The "white" schools are almost all less than 70% white. There are, however, dozens of 90+% AA schools.
Anonymous
Post 06/11/2020 12:46     Subject: Integrated Schools
What do you define as an integrated school?
Anonymous
Post 06/11/2020 12:44     Subject: Re:Integrated Schools
Anonymous wrote:It starts and ends with the liberal hypocrites in DC pulling their kids out of private schools, sending them to their assigned public schools, and advocating for changes in the Wilson and Deal boundaries.


This. DCPS doesn’t give a shit about advanced learners and has made that crystal clear. The discipline options available to teachers are ineffective in practice. UMC families (mostly white but UMC POC too) have the ability to opt out and they do.
Anonymous
Post 06/11/2020 12:44     Subject: Integrated Schools
People using their neighborhood schools instead of charters would help. There are plenty of integrated neighborhoods in DC, white people just don’t want to send their kids to the local school.
Anonymous
Post 06/11/2020 12:43     Subject: Integrated Schools
It has come a long way. Fewer schools are >80% minority than 10 years ago. It is a slow process, but I think DC is doing a lot of things right to make it happen.
Anonymous
Post 06/11/2020 12:39     Subject: Re:Integrated Schools
Anonymous wrote:It starts and ends with the liberal hypocrites in DC pulling their kids out of private schools, sending them to their assigned public schools, and advocating for changes in the Wilson and Deal boundaries.


Most of the DC families who use private schools live in WOTP. Going to the largely white elementary schools in that area won't do anything for integration.

If you truly want integrated schools you have to 1) have integrated neighborhoods and/or 2) not use geography to assign students to schools.
Anonymous
Post 06/11/2020 12:37     Subject: Re:Integrated Schools
No it starts and ends with appropriate academic challenge on offer from DCPS and DCPCS, as well as good discipline. Where UMC parents don't find both (in around 3/4 of DC public schools), very few enroll their children.
Anonymous
Post 06/11/2020 12:24     Subject: Re:Integrated Schools
It starts and ends with the liberal hypocrites in DC pulling their kids out of private schools, sending them to their assigned public schools, and advocating for changes in the Wilson and Deal boundaries.
Anonymous
Post 06/11/2020 12:22     Subject: Integrated Schools
This feels like the right time to ask this question.

Are integrated schools possible in D.C.? How would we get there?