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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You mean that they have been SEGREGATED???
Liberals are all for diversity until it comes to them.
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Awwww - the DC leftists are against desegregation… how typical.
Libs always try to force people to go against what they would naturally prefer to do.
Too many times when you try to bring the disadvantaged up to your level, they often end up pulling you down to theirs.
I grew up in New Castle County DE and was in the thick of deseg in the late 70s. We did the exact same thing, shipped a bunch of suburban kids from all around the county to the city of Wilmington and vice versa. Before deseg there was one bad district and four good ones. After deseg there were five bad ones. Public education in New Castle County was never the same. And guess who the young Senator from Delaware was who fought deseg? You get one guess.
Biden voters with coexist bumper stickers on their Range Rovers.
Liberals always seem to think they will be immune from their schemes to stay on top economically.
DC votes 90% Democrat, which means the vast majority of the Whites there vote that way.
It’s ABOUT TIME that they get what they vote for.
it isn’t the race, it’s the culture
You mean that they have been SEGREGATED???
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It’s been black folks who have insisted on segregation. It’s like they’re racists who hate white people.
Oh Well.
My ex-wife spoke about her HS days in Providence RI. It was the beginning of “bussing” in the 70’s.
She said the biggest difference was the white kids stopped using the bathrooms as they were routinely assaulted and robbed.
White liberal kids will get beaten, robbed, raped and killed.
I grew up in the military. We changed schools (and states/countries) every 2-3 years.
“Too many times when you try to bring the disadvantaged up to your level, they often end up pulling you down to theirs.”
in fact, most of the time: look at the ghetto gang-banger fashion and killer rap music that white kids adopt when they associate with ghetto black kids ... it’s NEVER the other way around ...
one of my best friends from back in the day eventually yanked his kids from public school and paid to send them to private school when they started speaking Ebonics when they came home because their “English” teacher spoke Ebonics ...
“it isn’t the race, it’s the culture”
When one hundred mile an hour winds are about to blow you away it does not matter whether it is a tornado or derecho...
Hope the liberal white kids enjoy getting mugged for their lunch money....
Lol.
Leftists tend to look at racially integrated schools differently when it’s their kids getting beat up.
No kidding.
exactly the same thing happened to the school system in Charlotte when deseg hit: heretofore, a majority of the schools were truly excellent, but ALL the schools turned to shite after deseg ...
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