But, like, white flight from schools, or white flight from whole neighborhoods and cities? Pulling your kids out of a school is denying your everyday neighborhood reality; zipping yourself into the white/affluent suburban cocoon is making a new reality. While I don't approve of either, the former is a sillier position to take.
In San Francisco, white kids
tend
to go into private schools. The exceptions are in the more affluent neighborhoods which have much better public schools. Which tend to be where the richer white folks live. Consequently there's a Diversity Index which favors non-white kids getting into the better schools. Which tends to drive more of the white kids into the private schools. It's a lovely cycle. Also complicated in San Francisco by the large Asian population which is very invested in high quality public schools, and also community involvement in
local
schools. So they are anti moving kids around to various schools. Which is contrary to the interests of the black families in the poorest part of town who have terrible schools. They want to get into the good schools in other neighborhoods. Currently all SF school placements are driven by lottery and diversity index, with very little weighting towards neighborhood schools. Which the asian community is trying to change.
OR
People move to a little pocket city such as the one which contains Emmett's school district and commute into the city to work.
Oh. I was misled by him quoting me just above.
Sorry.
No, it caught me off guard at first, too. I took it that way, after I went over it and saw he was quoting you.
Pulling your kids out of a school is denying your everyday neighborhood reality
I'm not sure how well this connects with the idea generally, but when I was a kid there was a family in the neighborhood who sent their kids to a private school for religious reasons. Actually, several related families, all of whom lived near each other.
The separation extended to social events as well. They were as isolated from the neighborhood as it was possible to be. And I can't even remember their names, unlike the other families in the neighborhood of the time (or certainly the ones who had kids anywhere near my age).
Oh. I was misled by him quoting me just above.
I'm oh so misleading. Actually, it was me tweaking my own generalizing tendencies by deferring to somebody I knew didn't have children. (Sort of an interior conversation I'm having with my own tone.)
People here are 1) suprised when a 6-8 hour project they didn't tell me was a rush until after 5:00 on Friday isn't done yet, and 2) expecting me to care.
There are several flaws in their logic.
Not going to enter into the home school vs public school debate here just because I see it as primarily a pragmatic issue, not a moral one. But I do find the discussion interesting because now that we've bought the house I've begun thinking about Franny's education. The local elemetary school sucks. It sucked when I went there, and it hasn't gotten any better over the years, so I know that I don't want her to go there.
I've discovered an inherent flaw in my cunning plan to catch up on my work e-mail: people keep
replying.
If only I had a magic clicky thing what puts the rest of the universe on pause.
"The Battle of Teaching Evolution Sharpens." Scary stuff.
Yep, scary stuff. The jury isn't out on evolution, the evidence is overwhelming. There might be tweaks here and there but evolution is pretty darn solid. What bothers me the most is that the "alternatives" are just religion masqurading as science.
What bothers me the most is that the "alternatives" are just religion masqurading as science.
What bothers me the most is knowing, from discussions with my students, how many future health practioners don't believe in evolution.
People here are 1) suprised when a 6-8 hour project they didn't tell me was a rush until after 5:00 on Friday isn't done yet, and 2) expecting me to care.
Did you laugh at them, Lee?
