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Take a ride on the Washington DC Metro (subway) any Fall or Spring afternoon around 245pm and you'll see why most white parents in the region have ZERO desire to send their kids to DC schools.
And you'll also see why DC/Metro Police have additional officers stationed at the subway stops.
Bottom line: Yes...there's plenty of correlation to ethnicity. You'd have to be blind not to see it.
When people on forums like these comment or inquire about crime rates, school test scores, and percent of kids on free school lunches, in different places is this often racist code speak for "how ethnic" those places are?
Are they?
Is there a problem in some schools based on the race of people going there? If a certain population is there would the school be more peaceful or dangerous?
Are there ethnicities that get in trouble more as a percentage of the population than others?
Are there ethnicities that succeed more than the rest of the population?
When people on forums like these comment or inquire about crime rates, school test scores, and percent of kids on free school lunches, in different places is this often racist code speak for "how ethnic" those places are?
Eh, not having any kids, I'm going with where your taxes would most likely be higher and where your kids wouldn't be safe or would get a poor preparatory education for future endeavors.
Want to experiment? Give those kids' parents vouchers to choose schools for their kids and I bet most of them would opt out of crappy schools, too, no matter what color they are.
Eh, not having any kids, I'm going with where your taxes would most likely be higher and where your kids wouldn't be safe or would get a poor preparatory education for future endeavors.
Want to experiment? Give those kids' parents vouchers to choose schools for their kids and I bet most of them would opt out of crappy schools, too, no matter what color they are.
Too bad the kids can't opt out of the crappy parents that are the biggest reason for education problems.
Whenever I see one of those annoying "My child is an honor student" bumper stickers, I know what secret code-speak it really is and I can only at it.
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Originally Posted by RCCCB
Too bad the kids can't opt out of the crappy parents that are the biggest reason for education problems.
One of the worst open secrets- that the parents who view public school as a form of day care instead of a learning institution are the ones with the kids everybody else is trying to get away from.
The schools are excellent because we have great teachers, small class sizes, excellent facilities and extra-curricular programs and good parental involvement. The schools are very well funded and a lot of the students end up going to good universities. However, it's frustrating to hear them run down because the test scores aren't as high as in other less diverse areas, mainly because we have more kids from challenging home environments or who have difficulty with English because they're recent immigrants. I suspect that the reason some parents don't send their kids there is they want them in a homogeneous (read all white) environment and they're afraid their kids will fall in with what they perceive as "the wrong element". They seem to be the same ones I hear worried about "gangs", which if they existed probably wouldn't even want their kids involved with them.
"Great schools" and "bad test scores" in the same sentence ?
Maybe those schools aren't so great after all....
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