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[quote=Anonymous]OP I've only found one way to change things but it's something that DCUM gets up in arms about.

You have to change the racial dynamic at underperforming schools by gentrifying them.

This is either by choice - you and your friends bringing your nonblack, nonpoor children to a particular school - or by policy, e.g., removing policies that segregate or by changing boundary lines to put nonblack, nonpoor people into schools that are almost always overwhelmingly so.

Once this happens, political and school leaders treat the school differently. Almost always people avoid putting themselves on the line and political leaders don't want to test the system by doing it themselves.

Sucks, but it's racial politics in America. That's how you get change in DCPS and PCS. Create school bodies that include children and parents who demand more and have the pull to demand it from a political system that otherwise tells the multigenerational poor that they just have to take what the system gives them.[/quote]

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