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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Same.  I don't need a separate program for its own sake, but it seems like the only way to get DD adrquately challenged.  If DCPS and the mayor were willing to spend an adequate amount of money on schools overall, we might not have this problem.  But they will not retain high SES families and have enough integration until that happens.[/quote]

DCPS is clearly willing to adjust its course offerings in MS and HS to challenge kids appropriately.  Elementary school is less about challenge and more about learning the basics.  If you would just send your kid to your local schools, the schools would adjust.  [/quote]

In elementary school it is about being able to afford nice things like music and art.  DCPS fails on that score.  I do send my kid to the local school, and it has been very difficult.  There simply is not enough funding for what i would like her to have, and there never will be.  Maybe 10 or 15 years from now it might change, but her childhood is now.

Right now we are trying to get them to PLAY ON THE PLAYGROUND consistently.  Even that is challenging for budget and cultural reasons.  So stop trying to guilt trip me.  I seriously do nothing with my free time except work on the neighborhood school, and it is clear to me that it will be impossible to make any significant improvement in time to helpy daughter.  Not because of race or low-income kids, but because of funding and DCPS dysfunction.  It sucks and we are going charter as soo  as we can.[/quote]

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