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Anonymous wrote:Why so many asian in yu ying

Maybe because they teach Chinese

Better question: why so *few* AAs at YY.

Probably because so few AAs are interested in learning Chinese, and a far smaller percentage of AAs applied as compared to others. Again, pure statistics.

YY is 48% AA, that is a higher percentage than any other immersion school. Why are people so quick to jump on YY?

Not everyone is even half bright.

Many middle and upper class AA had left the city along with the whites during the atrocious and "white flight" era but in the last few years have been moving back into the city.

many middle and upper class people (all colors of people) left the city in the post 1960s--especially after the late 1980s and 1990s, when the city was a horrendous mess. People who had the means to live elsewhere did. Now, DC is re-urbanizing. Demographics are not only about race, but also about class.

Many middle and upper class AA had left the city along with the whites during the atrocious and "white flight" era but in the last few years have been moving back into the city.

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Anonymous wrote:07:29, the reason Coolidge, Roosevelt were all white, was because blacks weren't allowed to attend the schools. Know your history. Such the case Dunbar and Armstrong had just as many or even more black students enrolled than those two schools combined. Also, Western (Ellington) had a majority black school population. So, again the white flight was done but it never impacted the school population. Get real after, the white flight, the school population ballooned to over 140k students. Which shows more came into our system than departed.

I know y'all are happy to see the prek4 through 5th grade having diversity but don't get too excited. DCPS couldn't handle a majority all-white school system, we are not that progressive.

While this is true, it ignores the "black flight" which occurred soon after. In the 80s and 90s, the black middle-class moved to the suburbs. By the mid-90s, the only people left in the system were poor people who had no option of leaving the city, and a handful of wealthy whites living in upper NW.

My family was/is neither poor nor white. You assume that all the Black middle class left the city. You are mistaken. My family was not an only.

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Anonymous wrote:Why so many asian in yu ying

Maybe because they teach Chinese

Better question: why so *few* AAs at YY.

Probably because so few AAs are interested in learning Chinese, and a far smaller percentage of AAs applied as compared to others. Again, pure statistics.

YY is 48% AA, that is a higher percentage than any other immersion school. Why are people so quick to jump on YY?

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Anonymous wrote:Why so many asian in yu ying

Maybe because they teach Chinese

Better question: why so *few* AAs at YY.

Probably because so few AAs are interested in learning Chinese, and a far smaller percentage of AAs applied as compared to others. Again, pure statistics.

If you believe Gray, DC may be adding housing projects.

Anonymous wrote:What black flight?? We still had quadruple as many housing projects, which is contrary to one's believe were not where poor people lived. It was the city way of offering affordable housing to specific demographic.

Now, if only the poor were left in the system, then prior to this manipulated date, DCPS was booming with successes. You're are not going to bait me into thinking that riches will bring success to DCPS because being poor was not the failure of DCPS.

Yes, wealthy whites lived upper northwest but they weren't of the child bearing ages. My neighbors was the owner of Lustine Chevrolet and we didn't live in upper northwest.

What black flight?? We still had quadruple as many housing projects, which is contrary to one's believe were not where poor people lived. It was the city way of offering affordable housing to specific demographic.

Now, if only the poor were left in the system, then prior to this manipulated date, DCPS was booming with successes. You're are not going to bait me into thinking that riches will bring success to DCPS because being poor was not the failure of DCPS.

Yes, wealthy whites lived upper northwest but they weren't of the child bearing ages. My neighbors was the owner of Lustine Chevrolet and we didn't live in upper northwest.

Anonymous wrote:07:29, the reason Coolidge, Roosevelt were all white, was because blacks weren't allowed to attend the schools. Know your history. Such the case Dunbar and Armstrong had just as many or even more black students enrolled than those two schools combined. Also, Western (Ellington) had a majority black school population. So, again the white flight was done but it never impacted the school population. Get real after, the white flight, the school population ballooned to over 140k students. Which shows more came into our system than departed.

I know y'all are happy to see the prek4 through 5th grade having diversity but don't get too excited. DCPS couldn't handle a majority all-white school system, we are not that progressive.

While this is true, it ignores the "black flight" which occurred soon after. In the 80s and 90s, the black middle-class moved to the suburbs. By the mid-90s, the only people left in the system were poor people who had no option of leaving the city, and a handful of wealthy whites living in upper NW.

Anonymous wrote:Even if the DC populace becomes less AA it doesn't equate that the school population will reflect a change. One white couple can't cimpare to the hispanic couple with bearing school age children. Also, the multi generational scene of AAs as native Washingtonians have a strong advantage for years/decades to come.

It would require 1,000 white children year entering consecutively for at least 4 years in prek4 and staying beyond 3rd/5th grade to make a dent. It is not going to happen. More whites with less children doesn't compare with less black with more children.

Of course, you're ignoring the falling poor population as people move out to the suburbs. And the poor are overwhelmingly AA. So while the numerator is increasing, the denominator is also falling.

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Anonymous wrote:Why so many asian in yu ying

Maybe because they teach Chinese

Better question: why so *few* AAs at YY.

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Anonymous wrote:Inspired Teaching 39% caucasion
Mundo Verde 35% caucasion/ 40% hispanic
LAMB 21% / 57% hispanic
Yu Ying 27% caucasion / 18% Asian
Cap City 33% caucasion / 28% hispanic
Two Rivers 34% caucasion / 57% AA

popular, not as mixed
Haynes 54% AA / 31% Hispanic / 11% caucasion
Stokes 44% AA / 41% Hispanic / 11% caucasion

Wow, I am quite pleased at these numbers! Does not reflect the city as a whole but still more diverse than I expected.

How does it not reflect the city? Pretty darn close to me.

Indeed. Perhaps PP means that Latinos and Asians are over represented in some schools, but it is obvious that language immersion schools are going to attract more of the people with deep links to the language in question.

This is pp - yes, you are right. So those numbers do reflect the city more or less. That's great! I still feel ambivalent about charters though.

07:29, the reason Coolidge, Roosevelt were all white, was because blacks weren't allowed to attend the schools. Know your history. Such the case Dunbar and Armstrong had just as many or even more black students enrolled than those two schools combined. Also, Western (Ellington) had a majority black school population. So, again the white flight was done but it never impacted the school population. Get real after, the white flight, the school population ballooned to over 140k students. Which shows more came into our system than departed.

I know y'all are happy to see the prek4 through 5th grade having diversity but don't get too excited. DCPS couldn't handle a majority all-white school system, we are not that progressive.

This was pre desegregation. DC will never again look like it did in the 1950s.

More AAs are moving out of DC, however. More white people are moving in. In a decade, DC will look like it did before White flight. Many schools, Coolidge, Roosevelt, etc were all white.