What's the racial and socioeconomic breakdown in your school? What would you say is the breakdown (roughly) on your block or in your neighborhood? How about among your friends and family? The reason I ask is that University of Chicago researcher Adam Green says that Chicago isn't merely segregated but rather "hypersegregated" in ways that make it far worse than other cities like Cincinnati, Cleveland, Baltimore and St. Louis and almost as bad as Detroit, Milwaukee and Newark (City's Inequities Belie World-Class Imagery). I'm wondering is it really that bad -- and thinking that it probably is.
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At my kids' magnet school, it is fairly diverse. Maybe 40% white, 60% minority. But at our neighborhood school, it is 95%+ minority (about a third black, the rest mostly hispanic), while the neighborhood is about 50% white and 50% black and hispanic. White families in my neighborhood tend to be better off than their minority neighbors and do not send their kids to our underperforming neighborhood schools. Ironically, if all of us middle class families sent our kids to the local schools, scores would rise, but probably not to the level that most families would find acceptable. Better students make better performing schools.
Does U of C produce any research that isn't already profoundly obvious?
Times up
Last month I had open heart surgery ,last week I finally pulled the plug
after 41 years and retired. It seems so strange to sit on the sidelines and
Not be part of the fight. But I would like any apologist for the board to defend
This. from 1970 until 1995 I taught at Simeon in that 25 year not one white, or
Latin kid went there. It was all black. That was 16 years after the Brown decision.
Simeon was and is a good school, but it sure was segregated .