Anonymous wrote:There are some basic realities that folks need to come to grips with - Schools that only teach to the level of the lowest achievers don't work.

Anonymous wrote:From what I have, that is not a problem at L-T. The absence of a G&T program does not mean the school is failing to challenge students at different levels.

Anonymous wrote:There are some basic realities that folks need to come to grips with - Schools that only teach to the level of the lowest achievers don't work.

Anonymous wrote:The right mix of students means a critical mass of students that actually care about going to school, and know how to behave and respect each other. Race and SES are not the issue, values and culture are the issue.

Anonymous wrote:You all are moving in but you all are not having babies. We will become the One Gay City before we will become the One White City. Case in point David Catania.... You want names, then you should be black and in attendance with the DCPS officials when they make their statements. Many DCPS officials take a gander at the room before they talk. Jus think how Rhee as minority herself would sit in the living rooms of whites and listen to their anecdotal remedies on how to handle the other races. As you see Kaya doesn't even go or even cater to whites in their living rooms.

As poster said that the biggest challenge is assembling the right mix of students. There you have it. What is the right mix?

Look familiarity brings comfort black principal corps, black instructional superintendents, black chancellor, black student population, black mayor and black voters that your white politicians need.

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I'd wager that most white parents don't want DC to become One White City. They like the diversity and it's one reason why they want to avoid moving to the suburbs.

Maybe not, but I do think most white parents probably wouldn't mind if DC became One High-SES City With People of Color Who Share My Values.

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Anonymous wrote:You all are moving in but you all are not having babies. We will become the One Gay City before we will become the One White City. Case in point David Catania.... You want names, then you should be black and in attendance with the DCPS officials when they make their statements. Many DCPS officials take a gander at the room before they talk. Jus think how Rhee as minority herself would sit in the living rooms of whites and listen to their anecdotal remedies on how to handle the other races. As you see Kaya doesn't even go or even cater to whites in their living rooms.

As poster said that the biggest challenge is assembling the right mix of students. There you have it. What is the right mix?

Look familiarity brings comfort black principal corps, black instructional superintendents, black chancellor, black student population, black mayor and black voters that your white politicians need.

I'd wager that most white parents don't want DC to become One White City. They like the diversity and it's one reason why they want to avoid moving to the suburbs.

Anonymous wrote:
I'd wager that most white parents don't want DC to become One White City. They like the diversity and it's one reason why they want to avoid moving to the suburbs.

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Anonymous wrote:You all are moving in but you all are not having babies. We will become the One Gay City before we will become the One White City. Case in point David Catania.... You want names, then you should be black and in attendance with the DCPS officials when they make their statements. Many DCPS officials take a gander at the room before they talk. Jus think how Rhee as minority herself would sit in the living rooms of whites and listen to their anecdotal remedies on how to handle the other races. As you see Kaya doesn't even go or even cater to whites in their living rooms.

As poster said that the biggest challenge is assembling the right mix of students. There you have it. What is the right mix?

Look familiarity brings comfort black principal corps, black instructional superintendents, black chancellor, black student population, black mayor and black voters that your white politicians need.

I'd wager that most white parents don't want DC to become One White City. They like the diversity and it's one reason why they want to avoid moving to the suburbs.

Anonymous wrote:What keeps ward 3 going is the kids and parents in it -- not DCPS.

The "status quo" is the reform that's existed for the last six years and what the mayor and chancellor are calling to "stay the course."

The only "entrenched establishment" in DCPS is the one that the reformers created when they fired huge numbers of administrative staff, principals and teachers and hired their own kind. Thanks to IMPACT, all teachers know exactly what's expected of them and if they don't measure up, they are fired at the end of the year.

The great majority of teachers are now "effective" according to the standards DCPS reform has set - and still the schools are "failing."

It almost sounds like you're in a time warp -- making the same kind of accusations that the reformers were making when they arrived 6 years ago.

I hope you're right that there is a growing number of pissed off parents outside of ward 3 who want decent DCPS education for their kids in their own neighborhoods. It's my feeling that it's only the parents who can force the city to make changes to benefit your children.

The taxpayers are the city's customers after all. The city should be working for you - not throwing good money after bad while your kids' education suffers (unless you're lucky enough to get a charter or OOB spot and willing and able to haul your kids across town.)

But remember when you organize yourselves, that you're taking on the reformers who have had the power under two very different mayors to make DCPS into the dysfunctional system it is today.

Anonymous wrote:You all are moving in but you all are not having babies. We will become the One Gay City before we will become the One White City. Case in point David Catania.... You want names, then you should be black and in attendance with the DCPS officials when they make their statements. Many DCPS officials take a gander at the room before they talk. Jus think how Rhee as minority herself would sit in the living rooms of whites and listen to their anecdotal remedies on how to handle the other races. As you see Kaya doesn't even go or even cater to whites in their living rooms.

As poster said that the biggest challenge is assembling the right mix of students. There you have it. What is the right mix?

Look familiarity brings comfort black principal corps, black instructional superintendents, black chancellor, black student population, black mayor and black voters that your white politicians need.