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Anonymous wrote:Unfortunately there is not enough whites who like each other to make a middle school or a high school solvent. There's not one white parent willing to have their child ranked in the low percentile and the school population is predominantly white. The need for diversity is the distraction needed to make it seem that DCPS has become a homey little town.

Again the illusion of the white neighborhood full of children is brought to reality when the school boundaries of black chlidren have the access to these very same schools.

If you want to talk about the "plan" it is a silent prayer that some of these charter schools stay in business. If not, many of these black children would just return back to their school boundaries and all of sudden the neighborhood white child is out numbered at their neighborhood school.

Honestly, find me the white parents who have been heavily courted by any of our comprehensive high schools other than Wilson. Pretty much what us with all of the hype.

There is so much wrong with this post that I hardly know where to begin. What are you smoking? Where is this neighborhood where all the AA children attend charters and all the white children attend the local DCPS? This DCPS school that is majority white, but wouldn't be so if the neighborhood AA children returned to it from their charters?

And who are these white people who don't like each enough to go to school together (nevermind use of the word "solvent" which is meaningless in this context)? Which comprehensive HS is supposed to be courting them?

As for "the need for diversity is the distraction... homey little town." What does that even mean??

Anonymous wrote:Unfortunately there is not enough whites who like each other to make a middle school or a high school solvent. There's not one white parent willing to have their child ranked in the low percentile and the school population is predominantly white. The need for diversity is the distraction needed to make it seem that DCPS has become a homey little town.

Again the illusion of the white neighborhood full of children is brought to reality when the school boundaries of black chlidren have the access to these very same schools.

If you want to talk about the "plan" it is a silent prayer that some of these charter schools stay in business. If not, many of these black children would just return back to their school boundaries and all of sudden the neighborhood white child is out numbered at their neighborhood school.

Honestly, find me the white parents who have been heavily courted by any of our comprehensive high schools other than Wilson. Pretty much what us with all of the hype.

Anonymous wrote:Unfortunately there is not enough whites who like each other to make a middle school or a high school solvent. There's not one white parent willing to have their child ranked in the low percentile and the school population is predominantly white. The need for diversity is the distraction needed to make it seem that DCPS has become a homey little town.

Again the illusion of the white neighborhood full of children is brought to reality when the school boundaries of black chlidren have the access to these very same schools.

If you want to talk about the "plan" it is a silent prayer that some of these charter schools stay in business. If not, many of these black children would just return back to their school boundaries and all of sudden the neighborhood white child is out numbered at their neighborhood school.

Honestly, find me the white parents who have been heavily courted by any of our comprehensive high schools other than Wilson. Pretty much what us with all of the hype.

Anonymous wrote:Here is the issue according to the previously cited Turque piece approximately 67% of students in DC are at or below the threshold for FARM. Assuming the economy does not do much better than it is now, there is virtually no way that middle class parents will find schools with what they perceive as critical numbers for for succeeding/well off enough parents. There are just not enough kids to fill those slots. Even if these parents do not move out the fact that the birth rate crashed in 2008 is also going to reduce those numbers.

Stuart Hobson actually has a very low percentage of FARMS classified students. Your analysis is a little off.

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In the cases of Lafayette and Deal, it doesn't matter so much because they've always had good reputations.

..... because they've always had good demographics.


Stuart Hobson would have a great "reputation" starting tomorrow if 100% of the kids enrolled lived, say, north of Porter, west of RCP and east of Western. Same teachers, facility, curriculum and principal can stay -- but JUST the kids of the CNN producers and Post columnists. No single moms lacking a GED or a job.

Which is why OP's question is intriguing.

Anonymous wrote:

In the cases of Lafayette and Deal, it doesn't matter so much because they've always had good reputations.

..... because they've always had good demographics.


Stuart Hobson would have a great "reputation" starting tomorrow if 100% of the kids enrolled lived, say, north of Porter, west of RCP and east of Western. Same teachers, facility, curriculum and principal can stay -- but JUST the kids of the CNN producers and Post columnists. No single moms lacking a GED or a job.

Which is why OP's question is intriguing.

In the cases of Lafayette and Deal, it doesn't matter so much because they've always had good reputations.

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, OP - there's nothing in your litany of steps that remotely looks like part of a DCPS plan, much less anything that suggests forcing parents to do anything.