The Real Problem With D.C. Public Schools

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"Oh please..." "...hissy fit..." "...freak out..." "I don't get why you are going on about..." <- clearly, 19:53 is the one having a freak-out hissy fit here.

Wow, what a rigorous argument!

[Anonymous]

At the beginning of the 1900s, Appalachia was booming with coal mining and large scale logging.

But later, those industries collapsed, and most left to seek work and better prospects elsewhere. Those who remained did so with little prospect locally, and this created an impoverished mainly white community of "de facto segregation" complete with poor schooling, drugs, alcohol, teen birth and all the other problems.

That's really no different than impoverished black communities (and it seems to me that PP above merely put 7th ward out there just as an example - clearly one could choose from among several).

Examples like Appalachia demonstrate that race has nothing to do with it.

[Anonymous]

The real problem with DC public schools are the loud, inconsistent, and ill informed parents who think they know how to improve education because they once went to school.

[Anonymous]

From an oped in today's NY Times by David Kirp:

"...The failure of the No Child Left Behind regimen to narrow the achievement gap offers the sobering lesson that closing underperforming public schools, setting high expectations for students, getting tough with teachers and opening a raft of charter schools isn’t the answer. If we’re serious about improving educational opportunities, we need to revisit the abandoned policy of school integration."

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/20/opinion/sunday/integration-worked-why-have-we-rejected-it.html?_r=1&hp

[Anonymous]

A hissy fit. Aren't we showing our age?

[Anonymous]

Nobody shoul fool themselves into thinking that the more affluent DC neighborhood schools are good. Granted, they are way better, academically than the poorer neighborhood schools, but even the best DCPS schools are way, way behind their suburban, MoCo, FfX public school counterparts and thereby are insanely behind their peers from private schools. DC schools are tremendously broken.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nobody shoul fool themselves into thinking that the more affluent DC neighborhood schools are good. Granted, they are way better, academically than the poorer neighborhood schools, but even the best DCPS schools are way, way behind their suburban, MoCo, FfX public school counterparts and thereby are insanely behind their peers from private schools. DC schools are tremendously broken.

Source, please? I've seen data to indicate the exact opposite, that in fact the best DCPS elementary schools are in fact better than their suburban counterparts. If you're going to make such a wild accusation, you're going to need to back it up with more than your personal vitriol.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nobody shoul fool themselves into thinking that the more affluent DC neighborhood schools are good. Granted, they are way better, academically than the poorer neighborhood schools, but even the best DCPS schools are way, way behind their suburban, MoCo, FfX public school counterparts and thereby are insanely behind their peers from private schools. DC schools are tremendously broken.

Mann is the best elementary school in the whole region.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nobody shoul fool themselves into thinking that the more affluent DC neighborhood schools are good. Granted, they are way better, academically than the poorer neighborhood schools, but even the best DCPS schools are way, way behind their suburban, MoCo, FfX public school counterparts and thereby are insanely behind their peers from private schools. DC schools are tremendously broken.

Could you be more specific? Are we talking about curriculum? Facilities? Teachers? Or test scores?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nobody shoul fool themselves into thinking that the more affluent DC neighborhood schools are good. Granted, they are way better, academically than the poorer neighborhood schools, but even the best DCPS schools are way, way behind their suburban, MoCo, FfX public school counterparts and thereby are insanely behind their peers from private schools. DC schools are tremendously broken.

Mann is the best elementary school in the whole region.

Yes, that and every time a Mann parent farts, the result is fairy dust and rainbows!

[Anonymous]

Wealthy students don't mean a wealthy school. As hard as many of DC residents are afraid to admit. This fascination in elementary school just doesn't translate beyond that point. It will never ever change in this metropolitan city.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wealthy students don't mean a wealthy school. As hard as many of DC residents are afraid to admit. This fascination in elementary school just doesn't translate beyond that point. It will never ever change in this metropolitan city.

I do not understand a single sentence that you wrote, and I certainly can't figure out the general point. I think maybe you don't like rich people. Or, maybe you think that the WOTP schools are bad. I just can't tell.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wealthy students don't mean a wealthy school. As hard as many of DC residents are afraid to admit. This fascination in elementary school just doesn't translate beyond that point. It will never ever change in this metropolitan city.

Source, please. Otherwise you're just shooting off your mouth.

[Anonymous]

Wealthy students who attend public schools don't always change the culture. Their income bracket really don't make the school wealthy in a sense of education and resources. Case in point take a look at Coolidge High School clearly not a wealthy student population but it is ranked high amongst the Washpo data.

Some would say that SWW is probably more income substantial that Banneker but face value doesn't Banneker have the educational edge.

@8:41, you do understand. @10:08, your sources are as close as your neighborhood school.

[Anonymous]

"Wealthy students who attend public schools don't always change the culture"

Sounds plausible. Now, as proof, you say "Case in point take a look at Coolidge High School clearly not a wealthy student population but it is ranked high amongst the Washpo data."

May I suggest a Logic 101 course?