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[quote=Anonymous]No flaming from me, fellow Brent parent. I taught at Bowen Elementary (Amidon's predecessor) for a school year in the late 80s, when it was a nightmare school, during the height of the DC crack epidemic. Some of my former students would be parents of current and future JA students. Whenever I think about JA's development trajectory, I remember what tough lives my students had (and that's putting it mildly). All that seemed to be keeping many from foster care, or worse, was a stable, caring 30-something grandmother or two in their corner. Their own parents were mostly in jail, drugged up, dead from crack overdoses, or teens involved in gangs answering to powerful local drug kingpins. The kids lived in grim public housing projects near the school. Your concerns about JA strike me as logical. [/quote]
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