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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you want to claim that "unprepared students" is really some code word for poor and brown children, then please provide me the correct words to describe students who are unprepared. [/quote]

I think you should just go ahead and use the term unprepared in any way you see fit, but then be prepared for the response it receives.

Maybe as a quid pro quo, you can share how you know that kids in a given school or classroom are unprepared and how you find schools where the kids are all prepared.

A lot of DC parents would be grateful if you could make the distinction discernible.  [/quote]

I am a NP.  I lived for many years EOTP, have now moved to dark side.  In my children's new school versus our old neighborhood, I can tell children are "prepared" in the following ways : they got enough sleep.  They were not kept up by a party, or just not great parenting, or (in the case of my next door neighbor) what I was pretty sure was prostitution.  They have enough to eat, so that they can concentrate and learn.  They've been read to at some point in their lives.  No one today has screamed obscenities at them.  My heart absolutely breaks for so many of the kids I used to see on a daily basis.  I don't want my kids away from them, or not to associate with them.  None of this is their fault.  But you are blind if you think it doesn't have an effect on schools and classrooms and peers.  And it doesn't make those of us who admit that bad people, racist or classist, to worry about it.  Navigating DC schools is hard.  But I really think the vast majority of us are good people with good intentions, both for our kids and their classmates.[/quote]

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