Posted on 02/15/2024 4:33:17 PM PST by Libloather
A plan to integrate two nearby Washington, D.C., schools with vastly different racial backgrounds is sparking fierce debate among parents in the predominantly liberal community.
Nearly 6 in 10 of the 500 children at Maury Elementary School are White. At Miner Elementary School, 80% of the kids are Black, many of whom are in foster care, receive public assistance or are homeless. Enrollment at the school has been declining, according to The Washington Post.
District officials have put together a plan where children would spend their early education at one school and later transfer to the other. Their goal is to improve diversity at both institutions by pairing previously separate demographics together.
"From my perspective, there’s a lot of unknowns about what the quality of the school would look like," Jonathan Rothwell, who has two children enrolled at Maury, said.
He also worried that teachers would leave the school because of the integration, an issue brought up during a tense town hall meeting with Maury families back in November.
"A lot of parents are already satisfied with Maury, and this jeopardizes that satisfaction," he added.
Maury parent-teacher association co-president Shavanna Miller was one of the people who spoke up at the town hall and said children can "fall through the cracks" when they move from one school to another.
"I think it’s not just because the children have to adjust their environment. I think it’s because a whole new set of adults needs to understand the kids, understand their family, understand their needs and how to best support them," she said.
Some Maury parents admitted that they would consider leaving the area if the plan goes through.
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Funny. I was living just across the river from D.C. right after Brown vs Board of Education had ended segregated schools.
That basically emptied Washington, DC of white families with school aged children, except for the wealthy private school crowd down in Georgetown.
The liberal High Priests of SCOTUS spoke, but their unenlightened subjects voted with their feet and headed for the Maryland and Virginia suburbs.
Liberals and leftists have always been about compulsion. Some of us can remember those pests spouting “You can’t legislate morality!” but that’s exactly what they have always been trying to do.
“but their unenlightened subjects voted with their feet and headed for the Maryland and Virginia suburbs”
When something is really important homo sapiens shuts their mouths and just does what they need to do.
Then the “rulers” look around and say “we never saw it coming because nobody told us”.
Lol.
So we see on full display here.
Just like everything else they want to inflict on us.
“Predominantly liberal community”, that might be true as the rest are Marxists.
I bet they won’t be putting any ‘disadvantaged yutes’ into Sidwell Friends
More swarm beatings on the horizon.
Liberals tend to freak out when they figure out their property values are about to crash and burn.
The mere mention of the words “school desegregation” is probably good for a twenty percent drop in property values—implementation another twenty percent drop.
Both are in northeast Capitol Hill:
https://www.google.com/maps/@38.8951621,-76.9886752,16z?entry=ttu
Maury - one block from Lincoln Park
Miner - about seven blocks from Lincoln Park
Both are along Tennessee Avenue.
How about muzzies?!
“for their lunch money”
I think schools use cards these days.
Those leftist families brought this on themselves.
The natives can just beat up the white kids for the fun of it then....to make up for hundreds of years of slavery.
Lol.
I think in Montgomery County it was:
Perversion-Minded Infidels - 1
Muslims - 0
All it takes is ONE kid who chooses to act up, (and which the administration is afraid to remove) to make education STOP for everyone else.
So was that named after Maury Wills or Confederate Matthew Fontaine Maury?
Oh yeah, my high school BFF lived in NW DC after college when she was single. She and all of her friends were all white dyed-in-the-wool Democrats.
This will not bring up the low achievers with dysfunctional families; it will just bring down the higher achievers.
“Then the “rulers” look around and say “we never saw it coming because nobody told us”.”
But they don’t give up. They just come up with new plans for compelling the wily serfs to obey.
In this case it took about 15 years for the ruling class to invent “forced bussing”. Your kids were their pawns, to do with as they pleased.
You only thought you were free. Instead government social engineers took possession of your kids and forced them into unsafe environments that everybody hated.
Integrate them as even liberals should not be allowed segregated schools, especially in DC.
Most folks in these parts figured out home schooling years ago—public schools are child abuse.
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