Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This guy does NOT like DCUM!!

" . . . toxic privileged behavior visible in tony enclaves like DC Urban Moms."

Wonder where his kids will be going to school . . .

Looks like the dude worked a low paid "real job" for merely two years, after college...and then jumped right back into graduate school for what amounts to most of his life. I smell a trust fund...

Just wait until his kids have to enter HS, he will probably have a mid-life crisis dealing with the horrors of reality...

High school? Try middle school. His oldest kid is around 9.

Anonymous wrote:This guy does NOT like DCUM!!

" . . . toxic privileged behavior visible in tony enclaves like DC Urban Moms."

Wonder where his kids will be going to school . . .

Looks like the dude worked a low paid "real job" for merely two years, after college...and then jumped right back into graduate school for what amounts to most of his life. I smell a trust fund...

Just wait until his kids have to enter HS, he will probably have a mid-life crisis dealing with the horrors of reality...

This guy does NOT like DCUM!!

" . . . toxic privileged behavior visible in tony enclaves like DC Urban Moms."

Wonder where his kids will be going to school . . .

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wonder where the author's kids go to school.

A bilingual HRCS.

Yup

Anonymous wrote:I wonder where the author's kids go to school.

A bilingual HRCS.

Hasn't this horse already been beaten to death? All of you are free to enroll your children at Ballou. No one is stopping you.

I'd say the dude who wrote this piece is a bit off his rocker, select quote:

"If you are a white person who moved to a “nice,” mostly white, upper-middle class town or neighborhood “for the schools” (full of mostly white, upper-middle class children), for instance, you are following a well-trodden — but privileged — path."

So, I take it Mr. Noblesse thinks the moral thing for a rich white person to do is to move her family to a particularly terrible school district so the kids can sink or swim there. I mean, who in the world does that. It's like choosing to buy a bag of cheetos when you're really hungry and can easily afford to buy a nice meal.

The one thing I do agree with Mr. Noblesse is that we should build more affordable housing. But that statement of truth doesn't save the cracked reasoning in the rest of the piece.

I wonder where the author's kids go to school.

Let’s suppose the author lives mid-city, like maybe Ward 4 (wink, wink). Does that make him morally superior to someone who lives in Ward 3? Should not the author share is high SES resources by living EOTR?

This is a great article, it address some things many white people will not admit.
Just in that other forum I saw many comments saying to essentially leave Ward 3 out of it and fix ward 7 & 8.

No, it's not just ward 7 & 8, it's every school in wards 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 that is full of low SES children. Ward 3 is just the only ward with the absence of that.

While I agree ward 7 & 8 needs to be better the issue is not just that. White people do send their kids to schools beyond W3 BUT only at schools with a higher percentage of White families and areas that are becoming or are already gentrified.

But in DC in particular I will say another great issue is the leadership. When will we actually focus on low SES students so they do not become a reflection of their parents. I am not saying low SES families are incapable but the reality is they do not have access or awareness of everything a higher SES families does.

I am saying this as a Black teacher and years upon years of seeing interactions with all kinds of families. DCPS is not innovative, they do not give title 1 schools enough support. You will not find a freaking rooftop garden for 'horticultural therapy' at a title 1 school. And I am not saying that is what those kids need, I am saying there are less opportunities for them.

Money does create opportunity and DCPS invests it in the wrong places and doesn't give back to the school; academically, emotionally, or structurally.

Anonymous wrote:Shame on those parents for entering a lottery to get their kids into Wilson, a school that is 39% white.

Keep telling yourself that. You're totally missing the point.

Shame on those parents for entering a lottery to get their kids into Wilson, a school that is 39% white.

It is also factually incorrect, but since when did media get DC right?

Yep. There are a whole lot of hypocrites on this website that's for sure.

...to Keep Their Children in Segregated Schools

I know the title sounds like this is a piece from the Onion - or just clickbait - but this is a very thoughtful piece centered on race in DC schools, and specifically nice white parents and the choices they make.

https://www.the74million.org/article/white-parents-horrified-by-george-floyd-video-still-go-to-great-lengths-to-keep-their-children-in-segregated-schools/