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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP responding to 23:23. I appreciate your long and well written post. I am right with you on the criticism need to do better for all our children.

[b]But what you seem to be saying loud and clear is that you will judge anyone who is white[/b], or who you even think might be white based on an anonymous post, as prejudiced against you. No matter what explanation that person gives, you will judge her by what you think her skin color might be.  I can't stand with the sort of bigotry you display.

I hope we both continue to work to improve D.C. schools. I am sad though that your mistrust and judgment means we each will have to work separately, and cannot work together toward common goals. [/quote]

What!?  Some of my best friends are white.  Cliche, but true.

For the sake of mental health, I haven't regularly read the DC Schools forum in years, but I bet I could still find perennial favorites indicating the assumptions made about people like me and kids like mine. Like I've said, I do appreciate the reality I've found on DCUM.  It is what it is and, like every other parent with options, I've made choices accordingly.  Who am I to judge others?

My criticism of DCPS is the relentless focus on testing to the detriment of just about everything else.  And hey, who can blame them? Test scores matter to the people who matter - that just doesn't happen to be the kids.  It's not like unprepared students are a surprise to anyone.  What does it take to shift the focus to preparing them to do something other than take a test?

But in order to get more people (perhaps like you, she said, with no assumptions) DCPS needs to get those test scores up.  And, unfortunately, for almost every DCPS outside of ward 3 the kids remaining in the testing cohorts are those with limited options.

It is what it is, and maybe what always will be.[/quote]

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