> “The military isn’t perfect — there is still racism in the military,” said Leslie Hinkson, a former Georgetown University sociologist who studied integration in Defense Department schools. But what is distinctive, she said, “is this access to resources in a way that isn’t racialized.”
Racism in the military is a career ender for officers and enlisted kind of like getting a DUI but worse. What is more in the system is a "good ole buddy system", where high performers often do favors for each other across racial, preference, and gender lines.
My parents both taught in California and I've been friends with many from DoDEA and here is a TLDR;
Please hold the downvoting for political reasons
-Engaged parents, most are NCOs, officers and civil servants
-Well Funded, like, $1M+ housing area school districts
-Low ratios of teachers to students
-All students are US citizens or foreign nationals from partner nations
-Great teachers, some overseas location have insane competition for teacher slots, some professors jump to DoDEA slots
-bilingual students that are smart seems the norm
-no problems with illegal aliens, or ESL brand new to English swamping 20% of the class particularly at higher grades like what happens in some parts of CA
-Some locations have DoDEA are the very choicest in the US military, so they attract the creme de la creme of overachievers competing for very limited slots
I'd describe the DoDEA schools as similar to the very best public schools in the US, but you can find other government schools that run similar programs to DoDEA
I’m not mentioning military selectivity because it is highly variable based on the strength of the US economy.
In the Army for example, the highest ASVAB averages are held by infantry & special forces (which is ironic given the low ASVAB requirements for infantry). Many people join the infantry for 4 years only, as a part of a “See action, travel, shoot guns” post highschool before college mindset.
Racism in the military is a career ender for officers and enlisted kind of like getting a DUI but worse. What is more in the system is a "good ole buddy system", where high performers often do favors for each other across racial, preference, and gender lines.
My parents both taught in California and I've been friends with many from DoDEA and here is a TLDR;
Please hold the downvoting for political reasons
-Engaged parents, most are NCOs, officers and civil servants
-Well Funded, like, $1M+ housing area school districts
-Low ratios of teachers to students
-All students are US citizens or foreign nationals from partner nations
-Great teachers, some overseas location have insane competition for teacher slots, some professors jump to DoDEA slots
-bilingual students that are smart seems the norm
-no problems with illegal aliens, or ESL brand new to English swamping 20% of the class particularly at higher grades like what happens in some parts of CA
-Some locations have DoDEA are the very choicest in the US military, so they attract the creme de la creme of overachievers competing for very limited slots
I'd describe the DoDEA schools as similar to the very best public schools in the US, but you can find other government schools that run similar programs to DoDEA
You can find eligibility for DoDEA at https://dodea.widen.net/content/rlhgfasqfx/original/ai-1344-...