Why are so many DC schools so bad?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The most housing projects are in Ward 6...the most prominent housing project is on Capitol Hill so affording DC and living DC comes are neighbors. Also, let the records show that the percentage is high on the sampling that's small. You can't have a school system of 25,000 and the testing population is less than 10,000 with a percentage showing 79%. That's why there's no uproar or outcry for Henderson to be removed.

What housing project is that?

Potomac Gardens

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's the poverty...please educate yourself about what being poor does to a child. The effects of poverty start in the womb. It's not the schools...it's the lack of prenatal care, lack of parental education, poor nutrition, lack of books in the home, fewer than 30 million words spoken to the child before 3 yrs, even fewer uplifting words spoken, lack of sooo many things.

This.

[Anonymous]

If you really want to understand read "The Shame of the Nation" and "Savage Inequalities" By Jonathan Kozol. If you just want to hear DCUM spout off about how black and poor people are lazy, keep reading this thread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The most housing projects are in Ward 6...the most prominent housing project is on Capitol Hill so affording DC and living DC comes are neighbors. Also, let the records show that the percentage is high on the sampling that's small. You can't have a school system of 25,000 and the testing population is less than 10,000 with a percentage showing 79%. That's why there's no uproar or outcry for Henderson to be removed.

I don't understand your post.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The most housing projects are in Ward 6...the most prominent housing project is on Capitol Hill so affording DC and living DC comes are neighbors. Also, let the records show that the percentage is high on the sampling that's small. You can't have a school system of 25,000 and the testing population is less than 10,000 with a percentage showing 79%. That's why there's no uproar or outcry for Henderson to be removed.

I think the most prominent housing project is Saratoga. It's slated for demolishing in 2017. I wonder where all those people will go. Now the most housing projects can not possibly be in Ward 6. Ward 8 has buildings after buildings of low or no-income housing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you really want to understand read "The Shame of the Nation" and "Savage Inequalities" By Jonathan Kozol. If you just want to hear DCUM spout off about how black and poor people are lazy, keep reading this thread.

Agree. But you should know by now, most people like to dump on others to build themselves up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The most housing projects are in Ward 6...the most prominent housing project is on Capitol Hill so affording DC and living DC comes are neighbors. Also, let the records show that the percentage is high on the sampling that's small. You can't have a school system of 25,000 and the testing population is less than 10,000 with a percentage showing 79%. That's why there's no uproar or outcry for Henderson to be removed.

I think the most prominent housing project is Saratoga. It's slated for demolishing in 2017. I wonder where all those people will go. Now the most housing projects can not possibly be in Ward 6. Ward 8 has buildings after buildings of low or no-income housing.

The person who wrote that has likely never been on the other side of the river.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The most housing projects are in Ward 6...the most prominent housing project is on Capitol Hill so affording DC and living DC comes are neighbors. Also, let the records show that the percentage is high on the sampling that's small. You can't have a school system of 25,000 and the testing population is less than 10,000 with a percentage showing 79%. That's why there's no uproar or outcry for Henderson to be removed.

I think the most prominent housing project is Saratoga. It's slated for demolishing in 2017. I wonder where all those people will go. Now the most housing projects can not possibly be in Ward 6. Ward 8 has buildings after buildings of low or no-income housing.

The person who wrote that has likely never been on the other side of the river.

Agreed. Have you BEEN to Ward 8?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The most housing projects are in Ward 6...the most prominent housing project is on Capitol Hill so affording DC and living DC comes are neighbors. Also, let the records show that the percentage is high on the sampling that's small. You can't have a school system of 25,000 and the testing population is less than 10,000 with a percentage showing 79%. That's why there's no uproar or outcry for Henderson to be removed.

What housing project is that?

Potomac Gardens

Ha! Seriously?

[Anonymous]

Yes! Rich go to private schools and poor kids just get stuck with DC's finest. We're middle class and didn't buy in DC because of the schools.

Why? Because you thought your kids would get "cooties" from the poor kids? Don't people realize that most kids from supportive, financially secure, educated families do just fine in DC schools? If you look at the scores for higher SES groups across DCPS, they are all pretty high. They are just in the minority at many schools so they don't show up in the overall school scores.

It's the same as when the inbound families for Hardy make disparaging comments about the OOB families...what they really mean are the poor kids from across town--OOB could just be kids from Capitol Hill or Foggy Bottom--exactly the same demographic, just a few miles away. Ironically, many of those vilified OOB kids score higher on assessments than the IB kids. But feel free to use them as an excuse, IB folks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Yes! Rich go to private schools and poor kids just get stuck with DC's finest. We're middle class and didn't buy in DC because of the schools.

Why? Because you thought your kids would get "cooties" from the poor kids? Don't people realize that most kids from supportive, financially secure, educated families do just fine in DC schools? If you look at the scores for higher SES groups across DCPS, they are all pretty high. They are just in the minority at many schools so they don't show up in the overall school scores.

It's the same as when the inbound families for Hardy make disparaging comments about the OOB families...what they really mean are the poor kids from across town--OOB could just be kids from Capitol Hill or Foggy Bottom--exactly the same demographic, just a few miles away. Ironically, many of those vilified OOB kids score higher on assessments than the IB kids. But feel free to use them as an excuse, IB folks.

Be as mad as you want, PP, but what the other PP said is hardly unusual. Personally, I'm more frustrated with the "middle class" families who buy in neighborhoods without "acceptable" schools who then complain that they have no options. At least the PP recognizes that she doesn't want to participate in DC's system and has made other choices.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The most housing projects are in Ward 6...the most prominent housing project is on Capitol Hill so affording DC and living DC comes are neighbors. Also, let the records show that the percentage is high on the sampling that's small. You can't have a school system of 25,000 and the testing population is less than 10,000 with a percentage showing 79%. That's why there's no uproar or outcry for Henderson to be removed.

I think the most prominent housing project is Saratoga. It's slated for demolishing in 2017. I wonder where all those people will go. Now the most housing projects can not possibly be in Ward 6. Ward 8 has buildings after buildings of low or no-income housing.

The person who wrote that has likely never been on the other side of the river.

Agreed. Have you BEEN to Ward 8?

Greenleaf is way more of a hot spot in Ward 6 than Potomac Garden. PP really needs to get out of the neighborhood more often

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm familiar with that concept. Are there really 80-90 percent of parents in DC who are not talking/reading to their children enough? What do these people do for a living and how do they afford to live in DC?

Have you noticed how the high SES families all cluster in the same schools?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Because poverty. Because inequity.

My father's grad degree was a scholarship. As was his undergraduate degree. Both academic, and his parents were useless.

Cream rises.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Yes! Rich go to private schools and poor kids just get stuck with DC's finest. We're middle class and didn't buy in DC because of the schools.

Why? Because you thought your kids would get "cooties" from the poor kids? Don't people realize that most kids from supportive, financially secure, educated families do just fine in DC schools? If you look at the scores for higher SES groups across DCPS, they are all pretty high. They are just in the minority at many schools so they don't show up in the overall school scores.

It's the same as when the inbound families for Hardy make disparaging comments about the OOB families...what they really mean are the poor kids from across town--OOB could just be kids from Capitol Hill or Foggy Bottom--exactly the same demographic, just a few miles away. Ironically, many of those vilified OOB kids score higher on assessments than the IB kids. But feel free to use them as an excuse, IB folks.

Be as mad as you want, PP, but what the other PP said is hardly unusual. Personally, I'm more frustrated with the "middle class" families who buy in neighborhoods without "acceptable" schools who then complain that they have no options. At least the PP recognizes that she doesn't want to participate in DC's system and has made other choices.

I'm one of the reasons people in my neighborhood thought it was a good idea to buy in. All it takes is one middle class lady with a stroller...