This is just another argument on DCUM that has happened because of the window that social media and the Internet give people who used to have no window into the other's world - its a class based argument. Rich people, and yes their kids too, raise money by having parties. Middle class people do it by having car washes and bake sales.

This is a party given by private school kids, and kids who attend are white, black and brown, they don't all look alike, but what they DO have in common is that they are all rich (relatively of course).

Anonymous wrote:Would be good if the teens worked to raise money by doing as a PP suggested jobs and put some sweat equity in it. Instead they want to a party.

No. The people complaining know nothing about the community.

They don't know about Don Bosco, San Miguel, Washington jesuit school, and the many others that the Catholic community support in the DMV.


So many families do put sweat equity into supporting our community. They just don't want to hear it. This dance does have sweat equity put into it by many teens, the others support their effort.

They are just mad their kids didn't get tickets and they are making up an issue that does not exist.

Would be good if the teens worked to raise money by doing as a PP suggested jobs and put some sweat equity in it. Instead they want to a party.

This reminds me of that leukemia fundraiser thing that a select group of high schoolers do. I am stunned at how much money these kids can raise. But here's the thing - how hard do they really "work" to raise money? It's all about sending out emails to their parents' wealthy friends. I agree with the posters who say that there is something about this that is unnerving. What happened to the days when kids held car washes and bake sales to raise money for their causes? They are learning nothing here except how to become fundraising shakedown artists.

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Anonymous wrote:My Sidwell eighth grader did not go but claims many of his friends did. A few questions-

How much did tickets cost?
Who or what is the actual sponsor?
Are there a lot of these kinds of dances throughout high school?

I don't know anyone from Sidwell who went to this.

Yes, several, according to my DC.

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Anonymous wrote:On this website:

Past committees tab

http://www.dbcrfunevent.com/

So these are children of donors/committee members. Hardly a true representation of all attendees. Yes, you will have mostly white people because there are more whites than blacks in these schools. I will bet there were black children in attendance.

I'm sure most of the organizers are well-intentioned, but if the only photos are of white people, it doesn't feel very welcoming to people of color like my family. Just our experience.

Say what? I know a few black people who attended. Were you there?

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Anonymous wrote:On this website:

Past committees tab

http://www.dbcrfunevent.com/

So these are children of donors/committee members. Hardly a true representation of all attendees. Yes, you will have mostly white people because there are more whites than blacks in these schools. I will bet there were black children in attendance.

I'm sure most of the organizers are well-intentioned, but if the only photos are of white people, it doesn't feel very welcoming to people of color like my family. Just our experience.

It doesn't even feel very welcoming to white people like my family.

Sounds about white.

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Anonymous wrote:People on this thread are crazy.

You probably don't think the Redskins should change their name either. There was an important civil rights protest at Glen Echo. It isn't just some random place that was segregated. Ultimately they closed the Crystal Palace Pool rather than segregate. I remember when this happened. Crazy, huh?

They are raising money for disadvantsged kids do really thinking glen echo is the perfect place.

You are not woke, get over yourself.

A better thing to do would be to have a dance party with the disadvantaged kids. But no - rich people, especially rich white people, just like to ‘help’ in ways where they don’t have any contact with the recipients and in a way that brings even more pleasures for themselves. It’s ridiculous.

Do the kids at Don Bosco Cristo Rey HS in Takoma Park want to have a dance party with middle-schoolers from expensive private schools?

You’re right - maybe something more respectable during daylight hours. Field day?

What does respectability and daylight hours have to do with it? Most high school students are not going to want to spend their free time, something that's especially precious for Don Bosco students who are made to work to earn their education, doing anything recreational with middle schoolers.

I don't really have a problem with having an event for kids that has tickets that raise money for a charity. I think the white clothing thing is a little weird, but whatever. I do have a problem with the notion of explaining it to the kids as if they, the kids, are doing something charitable by attending a party.

I love it when people throw money at a societal issue and think they are having meaningful impact without actually engaging the community they purport to support.

I kind of doubt it, since it was not a school sanctioned or sponsored event.

Anonymous wrote:Do the schools get involved if 7th/8th grade students from their school were known to be drinking?

Do the schools get involved if 7th/8th grade students from their school were known to be drinking?

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Anonymous wrote:On this website:

Past committees tab

http://www.dbcrfunevent.com/

So these are children of donors/committee members. Hardly a true representation of all attendees. Yes, you will have mostly white people because there are more whites than blacks in these schools. I will bet there were black children in attendance.

I'm sure most of the organizers are well-intentioned, but if the only photos are of white people, it doesn't feel very welcoming to people of color like my family. Just our experience.

It doesn't even feel very welcoming to white people like my family.

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Anonymous wrote:On this website:

Past committees tab

http://www.dbcrfunevent.com/

So these are children of donors/committee members. Hardly a true representation of all attendees. Yes, you will have mostly white people because there are more whites than blacks in these schools. I will bet there were black children in attendance.

I'm sure most of the organizers are well-intentioned, but if the only photos are of white people, it doesn't feel very welcoming to people of color like my family. Just our experience.

Anonymous wrote:Just checked out the pictures on the website. The kids are gorgeous and clearly big-hearted to devote their time and energy to raise money for kids their age without such enormous privilege. However, the very existence of groups exclusively this white and this privileged in the dc metro area is an unconscionable problem. What the hell? The pure whiteness of those commitees tells a big story.

So tell the story. We're listening ...