One can understand having some concerns about being a White minority in a school. Blacks are concerned when they are minorities in classes. They worry about bias and teaching style. Teachers don't always know how to relate to children who they consider different. Some probably are shocked when they find out that some Black students have more going on for themselves than most of the class. Time to put race aside when dealing with the little ones. They are ones that can make this a more beautiful world.

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Anonymous wrote:I really do sincerely hate people like you OP. If you want a white PK3 classroom pay for in at a private (but make sure you your it first because guess what there are some high SES black folks in the city). For crying out loud, move to London county.

New poster, oh take a hike. When you live in a neighborhood that's mostly white, it feels natural to be in a PK3 classroom that's half or more white. Period.

I'd bet money OP is not even live in JO Wilson's boundary, she'll use it for free daycare (hate that term but it's appropriate here) then bail in a year.

What's the OOB rate at JO Wilson? My impression was that there are many OOB students in multiple demographic categories (and also from ward 9 based on license plates), so it doesn't seem productive for one side to be taking shots at the other because of OOB. The school environment itself has much less anger than is on display here.

Latest data (2015-16):

26% IB

Black 82%
Hispanic/Latino 6%
White 7%
Asian 1%

It's a Title 1/Community eligibility school.

Instead of looking at the racial composition, you should be taking a look at the IB vs. OOB composition. 26% IB tells me that that the neighborhood is not investing in the school. I would look into why that is the case.

Good on you for not letting your ignorance get in the way of posting. Those percentages are school wide...8 grades! Your genius "investment" comment assumes a fixed rate of investment over an 8 year period. It is a blended rate.

In boundary for JO family here...if you are concerned about racial makeup at JO, for whatever reason, at the preschool 3 level it's about 30-40% white. Not all white kids at JO are from in-boundary families, and not all in-boundary families are white (gasp...people of color be living in the 20002!?!...what will Ms. Daisy do?). If you have concerns about the racial makeup of the school, it's probably not for you. Our principals are progressive, our ass't principal is black AND male (scary...), and the upper grades are all black and not in the hip New Zealand rugby way. You are as a white person, the minority at JO. It's been a good experience for us and our kid to be so. Our actual concerns with JO are those related to DCPS generally (testing, curriculum, facilities). Indeed, if you think that happiness in DCPS follows color only, well...good luck...and hopefully people understood the sarcasm in this post.

I am an OOB family at JOW. I still live in Ward 6 (and we have a high HHI, educated parents, own a home, etc.). And we're white. So IB/OOB may not be that helpful in figuring out what OP seems to want to figure out, which is are there enough white kids that she (not her kid, who is 2 years old and really doesn't care) feel comfortable.

I know at least two kids that attend PK3 this year and the parents are happy there.

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Anonymous wrote:I really do sincerely hate people like you OP. If you want a white PK3 classroom pay for in at a private (but make sure you your it first because guess what there are some high SES black folks in the city). For crying out loud, move to London county.

New poster, oh take a hike. When you live in a neighborhood that's mostly white, it feels natural to be in a PK3 classroom that's half or more white. Period.

I'd bet money OP is not even live in JO Wilson's boundary, she'll use it for free daycare (hate that term but it's appropriate here) then bail in a year.

What's the OOB rate at JO Wilson? My impression was that there are many OOB students in multiple demographic categories (and also from ward 9 based on license plates), so it doesn't seem productive for one side to be taking shots at the other because of OOB. The school environment itself has much less anger than is on display here.

Latest data (2015-16):

26% IB

Black 82%
Hispanic/Latino 6%
White 7%
Asian 1%

It's a Title 1/Community eligibility school.

Instead of looking at the racial composition, you should be taking a look at the IB vs. OOB composition. 26% IB tells me that that the neighborhood is not investing in the school. I would look into why that is the case.

I think you have to look at the trends. My guess is that the IB proportion has been increasing steadily, and that people are going to continue enrolling and push that percentage up increasingly.

The stats above are for the whole school. Often in changing neighborhoods like this the younger grades have more diversity and more IB kids.

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Anonymous wrote:I really do sincerely hate people like you OP. If you want a white PK3 classroom pay for in at a private (but make sure you your it first because guess what there are some high SES black folks in the city). For crying out loud, move to London county.

New poster, oh take a hike. When you live in a neighborhood that's mostly white, it feels natural to be in a PK3 classroom that's half or more white. Period.

I'd bet money OP is not even live in JO Wilson's boundary, she'll use it for free daycare (hate that term but it's appropriate here) then bail in a year.

What's the OOB rate at JO Wilson? My impression was that there are many OOB students in multiple demographic categories (and also from ward 9 based on license plates), so it doesn't seem productive for one side to be taking shots at the other because of OOB. The school environment itself has much less anger than is on display here.

Latest data (2015-16):

26% IB

Black 82%
Hispanic/Latino 6%
White 7%
Asian 1%

It's a Title 1/Community eligibility school.

Instead of looking at the racial composition, you should be taking a look at the IB vs. OOB composition. 26% IB tells me that that the neighborhood is not investing in the school. I would look into why that is the case.