In particular, when talking about public schools.
When can a school system honestly say it has a diverse student body? What would the makeup need to be?
I live in super white Arlington County VA... And the school system STAY perpetuating a lie that its school is made up of a diverse population. It was recently named the top school system in the entire state of Virginia...and diversity was one of the metrics it was measured on.
I call bullshit just based on the strength that it thinks a large hispanic population = diversity...


"Get ready....for your blessing....."

it's one of the things that has me scared as shit when it comes to "good schools"

I don't want to be in a white ass area but at the same time I don't want to be in the hood.

I think where we are right now is perfect. My wife works for the school system tho so we can pick any school in the system.

edit: 2 of my coworkers (one white/one black) told me of horror stories of being in the "good schools" in rich white areas. Rich kids stay with the best drugs and their parents shame the faculty into letting them get away with all types of shit.

white woman's daughter got hooked on the big H and the Black womans grand daughter came home with the valley girl "OMG, ewww, nappy hair" attitude.

Good luck.

does that equal diversity?
My take is that it doesn't.
And my beef is when schools tout themselves as being diverse when you can simply look around and see that they arent'

"Get ready....for your blessing....."

but it's not the diversity EYE would prefer for my kid.

I'm trying to make sure it's at least 25% Black for my kids.

tweaked?
Like, numerically I GUESS it qualifies...but damn...in practice, when you look around, shit feels way off...


"Get ready....for your blessing....."

private schools more so than the public though..

>it's one of the things that has me scared as shit when it
>comes to "good schools"
>
>I don't want to be in a white ass area but at the same time I
>don't want to be in the hood.

We kinda stuck in a white ass latino area if that makes sense lol...

>I think where we are right now is perfect. My wife works for
>the school system tho so we can pick any school in the system.

that's what's up!

>edit: 2 of my coworkers (one white/one black) told me of
>horror stories of being in the "good schools" in rich white
>areas. Rich kids stay with the best drugs and their parents
>shame the faculty into letting them get away with all types of
>shit.

Luckily we aren't in that extreme of a situation. It's more like there's a LOT of white kids...a GRIP of Latino kids...and a sprinkling of everything else. And most likely the kids that are black..are just black but not Black...

>white woman's daughter got hooked on the big H and the Black
>womans grand daughter came home with the valley girl "OMG,
>ewww, nappy hair" attitude.

Damn...
The hair thing...don't even get me started...shit starts WAAAAAY before school though.. Which is why I have major beef with Disney. Think I made a post about it years ago lol....


>Good luck.
Thanks..same to you!

"Get ready....for your blessing....."

more than 2 or 3 white kids in the whole school

as diverse...and I doubt they do right?


"Get ready....for your blessing....."

on the diversity measurements.


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here are the Arlington county numbers

https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Civil-Rights-Table-1-2017-12-7-web.pdf

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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

but everything else is far & few in between.
So it just doesn't "Feel" diverse I guess.
And then, when you break those schools out by district, the numbers look worse because the "diversity" really happens more in the southern portion of the county where there's a high concentration of Hispanic and immigrant residents.



"Get ready....for your blessing....."

measuring stick...like it used to be black folk.....they are multiplying and seems like our rate of multiplying isnt comparable...LA schools are predominantly latino...even in some of the suburbs...

exceeding the balance & distribution that exists in the country. It's almost like the term has no weight because it's based on a flawed sample set. Does that make sense? I'm still trying to articulate and understand this abstract notion that's in my mind right now.


"Get ready....for your blessing....."

I think any place has a claim to diversity (racially at least) if no group is above like 65% and their is at least two other groups that are around 10%.

I bet there is no school that has like five groups of 20%.

(oh shoot, did a search and there are some colleges where the largest group is no more than 20%. that's cool).


Anyway, my goal for my kids is to not have more than like 65% white. Which is hard for the better schools in NYC.



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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

>exceeding the balance & distribution that exists in the
>country. It's almost like the term has no weight because it's
>based on a flawed sample set. Does that make sense? I'm still
>trying to articulate and understand this abstract notion
>that's in my mind right now.


Like, "oh, we consider all viewpoints because we've got a little bit of everything included in our population."

But if that population is primarily dominated by one group (lets say 60% or more), then the views and perspectives of that group can easily overrule and stifle those of the minority groups.

So "true" diversity, to me, starts when no group is greater than 50% of the population and gets better the lower the percentage of the population the biggest minority group is.

My high school was pretty diverse compared to national demographics... 40% white, 40% black and 20% other when I was there. I had gone to majority white school before so it was refreshing to be around so many different black people, let alone *different* black people (which is hard to come by if you're just a tiny sliver of the population)... but I'm sure that 20% "other" had a different experience.

so if you're trying to find (or judging what's a good school) based on that then the more diverse the less likely the school is well funded or if you're lucky is average

It's like that's all that matters for diversity.

To be fair, there are some schools with nearly 100% black students, so anything's more diverse than that.