http://www.webcogito.com/2009/02/18/hey-where-the-white-kids-at/ Stop. Stay. Think. Sat, 20 Feb 2010 00:27:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.webcogito.com/2009/02/18/hey-where-the-white-kids-at/comment-page-1/#comment-14266 Did the white kids go to Private School? | WebCogito Tue, 24 Feb 2009 13:08:16 +0000 http://webcogito.com/?p=206#comment-14266 [...] Comments Joe the Gardener on Hey, where the white kids at?Gettin' By on Hey, where the white kids at?HMS on Just how much is $800 Billion Dollars?L.K. Barnes [...] [...] Comments Joe the Gardener on Hey, where the white kids at?Gettin’ By on Hey, where the white kids at?HMS on Just how much is $800 Billion Dollars?L.K. Barnes [...]

]]> http://www.webcogito.com/2009/02/18/hey-where-the-white-kids-at/comment-page-1/#comment-14257 Joe the Gardener Sun, 22 Feb 2009 15:56:36 +0000 http://webcogito.com/?p=206#comment-14257 My question then becomes, shouldn't the DISD Board of Trustees reflect those numbers? My question then becomes, shouldn’t the DISD Board of Trustees reflect those numbers?

]]> http://www.webcogito.com/2009/02/18/hey-where-the-white-kids-at/comment-page-1/#comment-14256 Gettin' By Sun, 22 Feb 2009 15:52:37 +0000 http://webcogito.com/?p=206#comment-14256 There seems to be a large urban population of young white childless people who live in the downtown condos. I wonder if there is an equally large population of empty nesters. Many of the white grade school kids are now home schooled and in "coop" schools. They all left when the district quit caring about them and focused every fiber of their time and money on raising the poorest students' test scores. They left when there was nothing offered to the regular, average, above average besides rote test taking "skills". They left when they no longer mattered. There seems to be a large urban population of young white childless people who live in the downtown condos. I wonder if there is an equally large population of empty nesters.
Many of the white grade school kids are now home schooled and in “coop” schools. They all left when the district quit caring about them and focused every fiber of their time and money on raising the poorest students’ test scores. They left when there was nothing offered to the regular, average, above average besides rote test taking “skills”. They left when they no longer mattered.

]]> http://www.webcogito.com/2009/02/18/hey-where-the-white-kids-at/comment-page-1/#comment-14244 L.K. Barnes Fri, 20 Feb 2009 16:04:37 +0000 http://webcogito.com/?p=206#comment-14244 While the pie chart does include "mixed race" often half Hispanic/half white & half black/half white persons are counted as Hispanic or black because these phenotype(s) or physical appearance is dominant over the recessive Caucasian phenotype. Perfect example is our beloved President Obama- touted as the first black president when in fact his heritage is black AND white. This won't explain all of the huge disparity but the bigger issue is to look past race and address students as individuals, not 'pigeon hole' them as a member of a particular "group". In other words- Why dichotomize ? While the pie chart does include “mixed race” often half Hispanic/half white & half black/half white persons are counted as Hispanic or black because these phenotype(s) or physical appearance is dominant over the recessive Caucasian phenotype. Perfect example is our beloved President Obama- touted as the first black president when in fact his heritage is black AND white. This won’t explain all of the huge disparity but the bigger issue is to look past race and address students as individuals, not ‘pigeon hole’ them as a member of a particular “group”. In other words- Why dichotomize ?

]]> http://www.webcogito.com/2009/02/18/hey-where-the-white-kids-at/comment-page-1/#comment-14240 Did the white kids go to Richardson or Plano? | WebCogito Fri, 20 Feb 2009 04:10:11 +0000 http://webcogito.com/?p=206#comment-14240 [...] Comments Hey, where the white kids at? on “hey, where the white women at?”Pre-owned home sales in DFW plunge 27% in January. on [...] [...] Comments Hey, where the white kids at? on “hey, where the white women at?”Pre-owned home sales in DFW plunge 27% in January. on [...]

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