Anonymous wrote:

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

+1. I find it so funny that they are so defensive about their hypocrisy. Yes, dear, you purchased a 1.2 million dollar, 1,000 sq ft home in upper NW “for the schools”. We all know what you mean. But, hey, you went to a BLM protest and have a little sign in your yard.

Not np. So if I move into a black neighborhood and I’m white, it’s gentrification. I’m tearing the black community apart. If I choose a nw neighborhood I’m a racist. Got it, white people bad.

Anonymous wrote:He should interview some UMC people of color. Guess what, we care about schools too.

Exactly. This patronizing crap that implies all black people are poor and wouldn't send their kids to good schools if they were rich is racist AF.

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Is there a point?

Anonymous wrote:

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

+1. I find it so funny that they are so defensive about their hypocrisy. Yes, dear, you purchased a 1.2 million dollar, 1,000 sq ft home in upper NW “for the schools”. We all know what you mean. But, hey, you went to a BLM protest and have a little sign in your yard.

Fair enough. But can't you support police reform, BLM, etc and still not want to put your kids in failing schools? Do you think AA parents who put their kids in charter schools are racist too?

Anonymous wrote:...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/

Why do black parents want to put their children in the best possible schools? Are they being racists?

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

+1. I find it so funny that they are so defensive about their hypocrisy. Yes, dear, you purchased a 1.2 million dollar, 1,000 sq ft home in upper NW “for the schools”. We all know what you mean. But, hey, you went to a BLM protest and have a little sign in your yard.

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

According to the link in the article he lives in Virginia

https://unsplash.com/@rodeutsch?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText

That's not the author. He's the one who took the picture.

I read this expecting for the author to come to some sort of conclusion or solution, but he doesn't. This is a puff piece. There's no contribution to the dialog here.

I can confirm that he's a parent at my kid's school in DC.

I haven't seen him get his hands dirty at our school. I suppose he's too busy writing this nonsense and bragging on Twitter that he, as a father, provides childcare for his kids.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Shoutout to the other dads carrying their share of the family child care load.</p>— Conor P. Williams (@ConorPWilliams) <a href="https://twitter.com/ConorPWilliams/status/1373983592443969538?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 22, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

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

According to the link in the article he lives in Virginia

https://unsplash.com/@rodeutsch?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText

I love this paragraph:


"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. You are weaving the thread of your family’s life into the United States’s social fabric and reinforcing its inequities."

Living in a nice town = Being in the KKK.

Anonymous wrote:He should interview some UMC people of color. Guess what, we care about schools too.

No you don't. You are just helping us uphold white supremacy. /s

He should interview some UMC people of color. Guess what, we care about schools too.

yes, if you want your kids to go to a well-resourced and high-quality school, that’s definitely the same thing as approving of extrajudicial killings of black people by law enforcement. Totally. You got me.

What a tool.