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Korean American to run DC Schools

 
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Tony_Balony



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PostPosted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 4:14 am    Post subject: Korean American to run DC Schools Reply with quote

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ca12bon



Joined: 29 May 2007
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 5:45 am    Post subject: . Reply with quote

She's fine.
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TiGrBaLm



Joined: 28 Feb 2003
Location: Hubcap of Asia

PostPosted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 9:00 am    Post subject: Re: . Reply with quote

ca12bon wrote:
She's fine.


I really hope you are being sarcastic...unless of course you have a thing for fuglies with massive overbites.
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Damulgun



Joined: 11 Mar 2007

PostPosted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 9:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

My Korean brother in law teached in DC schools. Very ghetto. Idea

Blacks and Koreans? Hmmm. Is there a real problem or are there few ghetto and money grubbing whores hurting each other?

In any case. The case of the missing pants for 54 million from a black judge has been dismissed. Now the 58 year old man will get no votes to be a judge anymore.
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aarontendo



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PostPosted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 2:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

[quote]My Korean brother in law teached in DC schools. [/quote]

Hopefully you didn't.
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ardis



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PostPosted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 4:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hmmm, this interesting. I've lived in D.C. for the past four years (went to college there), and D.C. has a really strange mix of schools. The SE innercity is infamously terrible, along with many schools in the NE. But the NW schools are AMAZING. I worked at a summer camp at this beautiful school for 2 years, and the kids all spoke like..3 different languages (German, Thai, Spanish, Italian, Swedish, French, Hungarian). There's a huge divide between the rich and the poor in D.C....it's really, really evident. The rich kids mainly go to private artsy schools in the NW or go to school in VA/MD.

There really aren't Koreans living in D.C., though, so I don't know about this whole "mending between black and Asian" thing. There is only ONE Korean restaurant in the whole district, and it's not very good. Thousands of Koreans live in College Park, Annandale, and Springfield, but they don't go to D.C. schools so...I don't get the race thing. I very, very rarely see Koreans in downtown D.C.
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Smee



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PostPosted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 4:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm ignorant to Asian-black relations in D.C., but I'm not sure why the onus falls on a Korean-American woman to mend fences. I didn't care for the tone of the columnist in the OP's article. There's quite a bit of inequity going on in D.C., but perhaps black community leaders ought to take some initiative (aside from instigating problems with immigrant dry-cleaners).
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Damulgun



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PostPosted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 10:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

aarontendo wrote:
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My Korean brother in law teached in DC schools.


Hopefully you didn't.


Rolling Eyes
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Damulgun



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PostPosted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 10:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

ardis wrote:
Hmmm, this interesting. I've lived in D.C. for the past four years (went to college there), and D.C. has a really strange mix of schools. The SE innercity is infamously terrible, along with many schools in the NE. But the NW schools are AMAZING. I worked at a summer camp at this beautiful school for 2 years, and the kids all spoke like..3 different languages (German, Thai, Spanish, Italian, Swedish, French, Hungarian). There's a huge divide between the rich and the poor in D.C....it's really, really evident. The rich kids mainly go to private artsy schools in the NW or go to school in VA/MD.

There really aren't Koreans living in D.C., though, so I don't know about this whole "mending between black and Asian" thing. There is only ONE Korean restaurant in the whole district, and it's not very good. Thousands of Koreans live in College Park, Annandale, and Springfield, but they don't go to D.C. schools so...I don't get the race thing. I very, very rarely see Koreans in downtown D.C.


There's about a 200,000 I think living in Wash DC metro area.

NW is more of a white district. While NE and SE is more gun crazed drug rampant areas.
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