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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is only so much DCPS can do about terrible parenting. I don’t know if the terrible parenting is even the fault of folks doing it, because they have such crap circumstances. But DCPS can’t fix all of that on its own.

I see it all the time in our citywide lottery school. There are some parents who are just … bad. What is DCPS supposed to do about that in schools where LOTS of parents are really really bad. [/quote]

As you allude to, parenting is the tip of the iceberg to address the material conditions created by historical injustice.  With that said, yes... it's easy to reduce the issue of student academic outcomes to parenting.  While parents play a big part, a child's access to a quality education is impacted by nutrition, access to healthcare, exposure to violence/trauma... the list goes on.  In my years working in schools, I met parents who had advanced degrees, knew all the right levers for student success (homework involvement, extracurriculars, access to caring adults) and yet the day-to-day impact of living in deep poverty still took a toll on their child's success.  All of that to say-- parents, nor schools, can control for all of these powerful social forces.  I'm sure that folks could point to the success of high-performing magnets and charter schools as evidence that this can be done.  My counterpoint would be that we have yet to see this at-scale...[/quote]

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