Downtown senior staff loves gentrifiers - it is the pencil pushers who feel like you are up in their grill about some mundane issue requiring attention, they are the ones resisting change.

The gentrifiers will never make a dent in Eastern or Eliot-Hine the DCPS headquarters have too much too lose for that to materialize.

If gentrifiers attend EH and Eastern - they would represent the largest concentration in NE/SE.

U can't b serious with your first sentence? Do u know that is a running joke for AAs, when whites try to justify or validate their I am not racist card. The immediate I know blacks and the infamous I have plenty black friends is just hilarioius. OMG, where is Eddie Murphy when you need him. This is a future SNL skit, I just can imagine it.

Who has the time to go after two schools. Your reference to Eastern being beyond repair is accurate but it doesn't accurately portray the school's rich tradition.

No gripes, no prejuidices but I am pre-judging those who don't have the overall school's best intetests. There's an urgent need to incorporate an IB program at Eastern. But for some apparent reason there's a consensus is that the letters of IB stand for ignoring blacks.

Word of advice, there's one lone white family who has selected Eastern this year. I would strongly encourage you seek out that family to see whether they felt welcome at Eastern.

We all know how whites view other whites when comes to an association with blacks. You know that infamous question of "what do you have in common with them?" I hating because I ask yhe same question too.

I'm white and I know parents personally at Eliot-Hine MS and Eastern HS. Not claiming to know all of them but, yes, they welcome white parents. Like all of us (white parents), I'm sure they're asking themselves what it means, how to cope, how to communicate, what tools to put in place to not see the balance tip from the flight of one group to the flight of another but to build true community. Many of them come from elementary school backgrounds where they went from seeing white parents bypass their school with their nose up in the air to parents waiting in line to get in.
My best guess from about the last couple of comments is that they are coming neither from Eliot-Hine nor from Eastern parents but from (a) poster(s) who just has it in it for these schools. Maybe because Eastern was declared beyond repair at some point, maybe because (s)he has a gripe with a parent next door, maybe because (s)he feels that another Ward isn't getting the same attention, maybe because of bad blood still circulating from teacher layoffs, school closings and mergers (including Hine into Eliot, which not everybody was happy about), because DCYOP moved from Coolidge to Eastern, and maybe because of past wounds that indeed never heal. May God help you find peace.

Anonymous wrote:Is all what you perceive as welcome. It is a public school and all are welcome to any school including Eliot-Hine and Eastern. I guess the itty-bitty question, once welcomed are your gracious?

No, not gracious. if white people start attending EH and Eastern again they will be over-medicated and pushing for big changes.

10:37, don't take umbrage, just take cover, if needed.

Is all what you perceive as welcome. It is a public school and all are welcome to any school including Eliot-Hine and Eastern. I guess the itty-bitty question, once welcomed are your gracious?

Also, are white people welcome at Eastern? It's anonymous here, just tell the truth.

1037--hee!

I am not clear. Are white people welcome at Eliot Hine, or are they not welcome at Eliot Hine? Please advise.

Yargle Bargle?

Anonymous wrote:In your own Stuart-Hobson little kingdom, a shooting could have happened and not even been reported. Such as the case, all the referenced discussion is about Eastern High School but the address of record clearly encompassed Eliot-Hine. Just glad no one was killed.

I take umbrage. Hobson always reports felonies.

11:28, you read it and responded it. I have your clear an concise for you in spades. Being a graduate of Eastern should be of your least concern.

12:55, I have been ganged gaped by the best of them and have become immuned. Never a Springer fan but a Povich fanatic.

In your own Stuart-Hobson little kingdom, a shooting could have happened and not even been reported. Such as the case, all the referenced discussion is about Eastern High School but the address of record clearly encompassed Eliot-Hine. Just glad no one was killed.