Anonymous wrote:Thanks Charles Allen! Just keep shoveling millions to useless violence interrupters. People are voting with their feet.

MD and VA are also losing white populations. They both have Republican governors. Not to let the "facts" get in your way or anything.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

DCPS is a district focused primarily on the growth and success of low-income children of color. From leadership down that is the priority, and it should be.

Explain to me why a school system should focus primarily upon on one socio-economic and ethnic group. Other jurisdictions like Arlington, Alexandria, MCPS, and Fairfax somehow seem to manage to care about ALL learners.

Because inequality is horrible for society overall, yes even for you.

I'm a European immigrant (but not Anglo) who is disgusted with continuing segregation and imprisonment of a significant portion of the US population. I want my kids to benefit from fair competition where the brightest minds can apply their talents and efforts to better society, not a system that suppresses such talent based on random and inconsequential (to quality) attribute, such as skin color, gender, accent, religion, sexual orientation, to name a few.


Do people really not get it or just pretend not to get it? SMH

Most whites believe that those other groups don’t contain the best or brightest. See how DCUM uses “white” as a proxy for UMC. If you’re really European but not Anglo, then you must be aware of this racism yourself, because it’s rampant in Europe also. Or are you just pretending it doesn’t exist?

Usually I am on DCUM castigating the casual racism of posters. In this case I am going to argue your virtual signaling blindness is getting in the way of facts. People use "white" as a placeholder for UMC and "black" as a placeholder for FARMs because the DC data supports those as reasonable proxies. I don't think anyone who uses those words that way fails to understand their are FARMs white families and UMC black ones. But in DC there are on the whole very few white FARMs families and the poverty rate amongst black families in DC is very high especially against all other demos.

There's an ongoing battle on Nextdoor about people who send out lookouts for people who committed crimes and describe hat, hair color, shirt, pants, shoes, car and don't mention the race of the person. When people point out the absurdity of failing to describe the only factor that cannot be changed, the woke police argue it is not ok to describe race. (Never mind that by assuming the perpetrator is black they are showing their own bias). I am betting, PP, that you are on the side of people who think it is wrong to cite the race in a post purporting to be a "look out for" post?

TL: DR It isn't racist to say "black" or "white" if the population about which you speak is mostly black or white.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

DCPS is a district focused primarily on the growth and success of low-income children of color. From leadership down that is the priority, and it should be.

Explain to me why a school system should focus primarily upon on one socio-economic and ethnic group. Other jurisdictions like Arlington, Alexandria, MCPS, and Fairfax somehow seem to manage to care about ALL learners.

Because inequality is horrible for society overall, yes even for you.

I'm a European immigrant (but not Anglo) who is disgusted with continuing segregation and imprisonment of a significant portion of the US population. I want my kids to benefit from fair competition where the brightest minds can apply their talents and efforts to better society, not a system that suppresses such talent based on random and inconsequential (to quality) attribute, such as skin color, gender, accent, religion, sexual orientation, to name a few.


Do people really not get it or just pretend not to get it? SMH

Most whites believe that those other groups don’t contain the best or brightest. See how DCUM uses “white” as a proxy for UMC. If you’re really European but not Anglo, then you must be aware of this racism yourself, because it’s rampant in Europe also. Or are you just pretending it doesn’t exist?

That's what Europeans do best...

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Anonymous wrote:White flight is from crime. DC made the choice to defund/devalue police and encourage criminals, and now we pay the price. $20k sign on bonus to get new recruits bec no one wants to be a cop. Stop the terrible policies.

DC did not defund the police. Check your facts. People are moving from cities here for the same reasons people are moving all over the country. More space. Schools. To be near family. And yes, crime. But not police funding.

DC is starving the police department. Bowser desperately wants more money for hiring just to keep the number of police officers at the same level. Meanwhile the DC Council diverts the police money to more violence interrupters instead.

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Anonymous wrote:WaPo article cites family-age covid white flight as higher than elsewhere.

Will the scenario of overcrowded WoTP schools pushing out "middle class" families come sooner than threatened by JR feeder parents?

Anyone have anecdotal feedback on white flight in areas EoTP or anywhere in DC?

D.C.'s White population has declined for the first time in two decades

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/07/01/census-dc-white-population-pandemic/

Are you only concerned about white flight?

I realize you asked this flippantly, but, YES!

Thanks Charles Allen! Just keep shoveling millions to useless violence interrupters. People are voting with their feet.

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Anonymous wrote:The article says that Montgomery County and Arlington lost white residents too, would you like to speculate about those schools?

This is the DCPS forum.

Not the poster to whom you are replying, but your response makes no sense. The usual DCUM crowd fixated on OP's half baked post to illustrate that the oft repeated concerns about DC schools are proved to be correct based on the population decline. Then we got the anecdotal evidence of all the people who moved to Arlington and Montgomery counties for better schools. I think what the poster to whom you replied was pointing out was that the theory doesn't work because the suburbs with "better" schools also saw population declines so that would likely indicate that the main driver for the decline wasn't schools.

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Anonymous wrote:WaPo article cites family-age covid white flight as higher than elsewhere.

Will the scenario of overcrowded WoTP schools pushing out "middle class" families come sooner than threatened by JR feeder parents?

Anyone have anecdotal feedback on white flight in areas EoTP or anywhere in DC?

D.C.'s White population has declined for the first time in two decades

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/07/01/census-dc-white-population-pandemic/

I find it telling that this article and your questions focus so intently on white folks when the article also notes "also dropped more precipitously between 2020 and 2021. The city lost 6,689 non-Hispanic Black residents that year, more than three and a half times the number it had lost the previous year." While the city has been losing Black residents for a while now, do people find that decline of equal concern or just white residents?

+1

I read the article and just knew someone was going to create a thread that talked about the "white flight" without mention of the decrease in other demos. I am also greatly enjoying the anecdotal replies saying how many people moved to close in suburbs. Of course, the article makes clear that this white population decline occurred in close in counties as well:

"Many of the region’s close-in suburbs also lost White residents at a much higher rate than previously, including Montgomery County, Md. as well as Fairfax and Arlington counties"

But by all means, DCUM, please proceed and do that DCUM thing you do.

Anonymous wrote:The article says that Montgomery County and Arlington lost white residents too, would you like to speculate about those schools?

This is the DCPS forum.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

DCPS is a district focused primarily on the growth and success of low-income children of color. From leadership down that is the priority, and it should be.

Explain to me why a school system should focus primarily upon on one socio-economic and ethnic group. Other jurisdictions like Arlington, Alexandria, MCPS, and Fairfax somehow seem to manage to care about ALL learners.

Because inequality is horrible for society overall, yes even for you.

I'm a European immigrant (but not Anglo) who is disgusted with continuing segregation and imprisonment of a significant portion of the US population. I want my kids to benefit from fair competition where the brightest minds can apply their talents and efforts to better society, not a system that suppresses such talent based on random and inconsequential (to quality) attribute, such as skin color, gender, accent, religion, sexual orientation, to name a few.


Do people really not get it or just pretend not to get it? SMH

You are arguing that DCPS should prioritize a single demographic out of equality?! Huh.

Anonymous wrote:WaPo article cites family-age covid white flight as higher than elsewhere.

Will the scenario of overcrowded WoTP schools pushing out "middle class" families come sooner than threatened by JR feeder parents?

Anyone have anecdotal feedback on white flight in areas EoTP or anywhere in DC?

D.C.'s White population has declined for the first time in two decades

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/07/01/census-dc-white-population-pandemic/

Are you only concerned about white flight?

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Anonymous wrote:White flight is from crime. DC made the choice to defund/devalue police and encourage criminals, and now we pay the price. $20k sign on bonus to get new recruits bec no one wants to be a cop. Stop the terrible policies.

DC did not defund the police. Check your facts. People are moving from cities here for the same reasons people are moving all over the country. More space. Schools. To be near family. And yes, crime. But not police funding.

Hello. DC did not defund the police MPD has a half a billion dollar budget, and Murial Bowser asking for more.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

DCPS is a district focused primarily on the growth and success of low-income children of color. From leadership down that is the priority, and it should be.

Explain to me why a school system should focus primarily upon on one socio-economic and ethnic group. Other jurisdictions like Arlington, Alexandria, MCPS, and Fairfax somehow seem to manage to care about ALL learners.

Because inequality is horrible for society overall, yes even for you.

I'm a European immigrant (but not Anglo) who is disgusted with continuing segregation and imprisonment of a significant portion of the US population. I want my kids to benefit from fair competition where the brightest minds can apply their talents and efforts to better society, not a system that suppresses such talent based on random and inconsequential (to quality) attribute, such as skin color, gender, accent, religion, sexual orientation, to name a few.


Do people really not get it or just pretend not to get it? SMH

Most whites believe that those other groups don’t contain the best or brightest. See how DCUM uses “white” as a proxy for UMC. If you’re really European but not Anglo, then you must be aware of this racism yourself, because it’s rampant in Europe also. Or are you just pretending it doesn’t exist?

The article says that Montgomery County and Arlington lost white residents too, would you like to speculate about those schools?

Meh. Life will go on.