I am so frustrated and puzzled to see folks pining about being on the waitlist for Pathfinder, Why would people want to put their kids into a predominantly white school that is failing in double digits, rather than to have them attend a culturally diverse, neighborhood school that is succeeding, and NOT in its fifth year of failing AYP? Even the Department of Education suggested to the District that they close this school because it was failing. I don’t know why you would want so little for your children. Would you same people be in such a lather to get their kids into this school if they were still in the practically condemned Genessee Hill Building instead of the gleaming Cooper building? For example, Roxhill is not in any step of failure, yet it is whispered in the “good circles” of West Seattle as being a “bad” school and a ghetto school, A predominantly brown school that is succeeding is not worse than a school of failing white kids in a nice building, but it appears that that might be the consensus here in Seattle. These are patterns that the country saw before the “Brown vs, the Board of Education” decision was handed down in 1954. Please understand I am in no way against predominantly white schools, but I am tired of rewatching this perception that schools of color are “bad” and failing when a lot of them are not.
Maybe if all of you just attended your neighborhood schools, no schools in West Seattle would have a bad reputation. More commentary nickesparza@seattleschooldistrictexposed.com
I’m just sayin…
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