“DC schools are crappy inmate factories.”

[Anonymous]

That’s rich coming from an Alabama Congressman. What an a**! DC really needs Statehood so we don’t have to listen to some tool from Alabama!!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/03/29/dc-schools-inmate-factories/

[Anonymous]

Math and reading test scores are higher in alabama than DC

[Anonymous]

So are some Alabama schools. So are some schools all over the country.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Math and reading test scores are higher in alabama than DC

I'm sure not in every city in Alabama, which is a more accurate comparison to make.

[Anonymous]

F**k that guy. Imagine being so dumb that you think EDUCATION is causing criminality.

To the PP who wants to compare the test scores for a municipality with those of a single state, go pull the numbers for Birmingham schools and get back to me.

[Anonymous]

I say this as an eyes wide open DCPS parent - F that guy. Go back to Alabama.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I say this as an eyes wide open DCPS parent - F that guy. Go back to Alabama.

Same. There is a lot I'd like to change about DCPS but that guy is just using our children to score political points with racists voters in Alabama.

Also, as someone who actually lives in DC and has some major opinions about crime in this city, it's so obvious that juvenile crime in DC is mitigated/improved by more time in and exposure to DCPS. Like it is not the kids sitting in classrooms across this city who are committing crimes. It's the ones who don't show up to school, who have disappeared from the system. If you could guarantee that every kid age 10-18 in this city was sitting in a public school classroom today with one of the city's hard-working and well-qualified teachers, you'd see a crime drop instantly.

Schools in this city have their issues, but they are not causing crime. The opposite -- they are one of our best tools for preventing it, and they don't always get the support and participation from other city institutions to do that important work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I say this as an eyes wide open DCPS parent - F that guy. Go back to Alabama.

Same. There is a lot I'd like to change about DCPS but that guy is just using our children to score political points with racists voters in Alabama.

Also, as someone who actually lives in DC and has some major opinions about crime in this city, it's so obvious that juvenile crime in DC is mitigated/improved by more time in and exposure to DCPS. Like it is not the kids sitting in classrooms across this city who are committing crimes. It's the ones who don't show up to school, who have disappeared from the system. If you could guarantee that every kid age 10-18 in this city was sitting in a public school classroom today with one of the city's hard-working and well-qualified teachers, you'd see a crime drop instantly.

Schools in this city have their issues, but they are not causing crime. The opposite -- they are one of our best tools for preventing it, and they don't always get the support and participation from other city institutions to do that important work.

Cosigned.

[Anonymous]

I mean, school to prison pipeline is real.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I say this as an eyes wide open DCPS parent - F that guy. Go back to Alabama.

Same. There is a lot I'd like to change about DCPS but that guy is just using our children to score political points with racists voters in Alabama.

Also, as someone who actually lives in DC and has some major opinions about crime in this city, it's so obvious that juvenile crime in DC is mitigated/improved by more time in and exposure to DCPS. Like it is not the kids sitting in classrooms across this city who are committing crimes. It's the ones who don't show up to school, who have disappeared from the system. If you could guarantee that every kid age 10-18 in this city was sitting in a public school classroom today with one of the city's hard-working and well-qualified teachers, you'd see a crime drop instantly.

Schools in this city have their issues, but they are not causing crime. The opposite -- they are one of our best tools for preventing it, and they don't always get the support and participation from other city institutions to do that important work.

Cosigned.

Amen. I'd add, one reason that schools are struggling is that they are expected to manage and ameliorate a whole host of other social issues over which they have no control -- crime, poverty, homelessness, instability, hunger, etc. But for many kids, school is the only place where they are supported and if they spent more time there, they'd be better off.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I mean, school to prison pipeline is real.

It refers to school systems that don't care about kids, writes them off early when kids from high risk environments have academic and behavioral issues, and relies on tactics like suspension, expulsion, tracking problem kids out of the general population, as well as practices like having lots of cops on campus and a very punitive environment.

That's not DCPS, especially not anymore.

"School to prison" pipeline is a progressive criticism of schools that treat children like inmates to be managed and shuffled along. Which is EXACTLY what this guy (I refuse to learn his name, he's just "Alabama Congressman" to me) is doing. It is not a description of a school system that is actually doing a lot to counteract the way public schools in this country have traditionally treated black kids and kids in poverty, both of which are over-represented in DCPS compared to the rest of the country.

But you actually have to know something about public school and our country's history of institutionalized racism to understand that, and this guy doesn't even want to know about either of those things.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Math and reading test scores are higher in alabama than DC

I'm sure not in every city in Alabama, which is a more accurate comparison to make.

So DC as a whole is better than the worst performing cities in Alabama- someone break out the champaign

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I say this as an eyes wide open DCPS parent - F that guy. Go back to Alabama.

Same. There is a lot I'd like to change about DCPS but that guy is just using our children to score political points with racists voters in Alabama.

Also, as someone who actually lives in DC and has some major opinions about crime in this city, it's so obvious that juvenile crime in DC is mitigated/improved by more time in and exposure to DCPS. Like it is not the kids sitting in classrooms across this city who are committing crimes. It's the ones who don't show up to school, who have disappeared from the system. If you could guarantee that every kid age 10-18 in this city was sitting in a public school classroom today with one of the city's hard-working and well-qualified teachers, you'd see a crime drop instantly.

Schools in this city have their issues, but they are not causing crime. The opposite -- they are one of our best tools for preventing it, and they don't always get the support and participation from other city institutions to do that important work.

Cosigned.

Amen. I'd add, one reason that schools are struggling is that they are expected to manage and ameliorate a whole host of other social issues over which they have no control -- crime, poverty, homelessness, instability, hunger, etc. But for many kids, school is the only place where they are supported and if they spent more time there, they'd be better off.

YES. DCPS is picking up everyone else's slack, and then it gets crapped on by someone who is in an oversight role for the city? Give us freaking statehood, I cannot with this ish anymore.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Math and reading test scores are higher in alabama than DC

I'm sure not in every city in Alabama, which is a more accurate comparison to make.

So DC as a whole is better than the worst performing cities in Alabama- someone break out the champaign

What state education system produced this super speller?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Math and reading test scores are higher in alabama than DC

I'm sure not in every city in Alabama, which is a more accurate comparison to make.

So DC as a whole is better than the worst performing cities in Alabama- someone break out the champaign

I mean you were ready to break out the champagne for the state of Alabama when making the comparison the other way. If DC has better test scores than Birmingham, maybe DC City Council should go tell Birmingham how to run it's public schools? By your logic, I mean.