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Plan to blend predominantly Black and White DC schools leads to tense debate in liberal neighborhood
Fox News ^ | 2/15/24 | Nikolas Lanum

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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To: CaptainK

I’m not sure to be honest. Would be shocked if they went to public schools.


61 posted on 02/16/2024 7:37:02 AM PST by oldskoolwargamer2
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
Too many times when you try to bring the disadvantaged up to your level, they often end up pulling you down to theirs.

That is because destruction is much easier than building.

62 posted on 02/16/2024 9:25:28 AM PST by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion
it isn’t the race, it’s the culture

I used to believe that. Not so sure about it anymore at all.

63 posted on 02/16/2024 9:26:55 AM PST by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: zeugma

Well in broad terms you may be right.


64 posted on 02/16/2024 9:37:56 AM PST by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

Yes it is the race. The culture was brought to you by the race, now that you put chocolate so to speak in the Angel food cake mix, you no longer have the same food. We screwed up bringing in slaves, we are screwing up bringing in the worst people in the world into what was a first class society.

The “Vandals” are ransacking Rome as I write, or better said, bringing in the poor and disenfranchised, the children who do not know who their parents are, CANNOT but tear apart a society.

LBJ on forward, the politicians purposely destroyed the country. Once they started paying women to have children by men they screw them move on, the die was cast. Further, paying them increasing amounts, then allowing SS payments to the kids and immigrants, it was just a matter of time.


65 posted on 02/16/2024 10:35:34 AM PST by Glad2bnuts (“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: We should have set up ambushes...paraphrased)
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To: Glad2bnuts
Yes it is the race.

It commonly is... but I know of cultures of black people - Maasi for example - who have a much nicer culture. I have also met black people from cultures outside the US that are very different.

66 posted on 02/16/2024 10:55:02 AM PST by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

I’ve seen the same in Europe although in England, the English guy I knew clued me in that if they’re refugees, they get a stipend from the govt and, if they get a white girl preggers, they get a free apartment (I’m sure thats not forever but I lack details. As a side note, the most pronounced English accent I’ve ever heard was a Chinese door man in Hong Kong.


67 posted on 02/16/2024 8:15:31 PM PST by Rembrandt (-a sure sign a Dem is lying - his lips are moving.)
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To: Rembrandt

Do you mean Frank Marshall Davis, friend of Barack Obama’s maternal grandfather and the first Communist mentor of the future President?


68 posted on 02/16/2024 8:21:04 PM PST by Wallace T.
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To: Wallace T.

Bingo! I’m surprised how few people know of Davis who fed straight Communism to the young and impressionable socialist. Davis is behind so many of the ills that our country is going thru now. Biden is just a convenient stooge for Obama to use.


69 posted on 02/17/2024 8:35:58 PM PST by Rembrandt (-a sure sign a Dem is lying - his lips are moving.)
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To: Libloather
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.

So instead of one failing school, now we'll have two failing schools!

70 posted on 02/17/2024 8:37:40 PM PST by Drew68
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To: Libloather
Has MS-13 moved in yet?

MS-13 isn't moving to DC.

71 posted on 02/17/2024 8:38:49 PM PST by Drew68
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