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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some of it is just tilting at windmills, even if the ideas are good, like Walker Jones and their Reggio program.  I don't care what that building looks like, the demographics of that neighborhood are so against you in trying to create a good program that they were almost bound to fail.[/quote]
Are you saying that DC shouldn't invest in buildings or programs in poor neighborhoods? I don't think that's what you meant, directly, but that is the implication of what you are saying.

I think one of the reasons DC has invested so much money even in underperforming schools is that it cannot -- morally or politically -- only invest in "up and coming" gentrifying schools. I do agree that we need better planning. But in the end we do need excellent school facilities in every area of the city, full stop.

We should certainly have more honest conversations about what schools are working, however, and maybe we should allow high-performing charters to co-locate with some of these under enrolled DCPS schools. If Ballou continues to be under enrolled, maybe Thurgood Marshall could move or replicate there? And perhaps DCI should have been placed in Dunbar or Roosevelt? [/quote]

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