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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why do we still go on at this day and age that DC scores suck. Yes, ofcourse they suck if put all together. They don't suck however when we look at the top 10-15 schools and most of those are in ward 3. There is nothing wrong with those schools and they have very involved parents who support the school in every way.
My "friend" used to say: best DC school is worse that worst FF school". My "friend" is an idiot and I'm glad she moved to FL.
I have no idea what made her think that I would let my kid go to a shitty school. We both went through the same school system in Europe and somehow she thinks I don't recognize a bad school and let my kid go there?! 
I don't understand how the bad score on the other side of the city affect my kid. I'm sorry they don't do as well, [b]but how can I help[/b]!
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Well that's a whole different discussion, and a can or worms that most people aren't really interested in working on.[/quote]

One thing we do know is that the primary cause doesn't lie with the schools. Ward 3 schools are good because they are filled with well-supported, smart kids. There is otherwise nothing fundamentally different about these schools, and letting in some OOB kids is not going to improve matters for the populations of the city as a whole. Neither would mixing things up with a city wide lottery, because even if upper SES families didn't run for hills in that scenario, the ratio of higher SES to poor kids in DC is still too low to lift everyone up.

I wish I had a solution.[/quote]

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