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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]socioeconomically diverse public schools are big picture a really good thing. schools run better when a majority of the students are not economically at-risk and/or have a significant level of family/community support. but thats mostly keeping the often overlooked middle class of all races in dc public schools.[/quote]

When a school becomes comprised over more than 30% at-risk students, the middle class families generally tend to leave.  They may stick around for k-2 but once third grade hits and it is more about reading to learn instead of learning to read, the middle class families will peel off if they believe that their children's needs are not being met because the school is having to focus the bulk of its resources on the most struggling kids.  And, as the strength of the charter sector has shown, not only did a significant amount of middle class families turn to the charter world, but a large number of working and at-risk families will also peel off from regular DCPS if they think that the charters can provide a more attentive and rigorous environment with respect to academics and behavior.    [/quote]

This would not happen if there was tracking but of course we can’t have that because of equity.  Also the reality is DCPS doesn’t care about meeting the needs of the higher performing kids.  All they care about and concentrate resources to is the bottom.

They will be “OK” however you define that, even if bored to death and not learning much.  But hey, they can be helpers for the other students.[/quote]

DCPS isn't actually doing much for kids at the bottom either. They say they are focusing on kids with the most needs, but where's the evidence? As many have pointed out, you're much better off being a poor black child in a Mississippi school than in DCPS. Poor kids in DC are used as an excuse by DCPS not to help UMC kids. [/quote]

Yeah, the longer I witness this system (and have had kids at a Title 1 DCPS school and a low-risk Charter), I think the problem is the low expectations baked into DCPS. It actually breaks my heart to see these kids whose parents are trusting the system to challenge their kids and give them a pathway to success. [/quote]

Raising academic standards through the system would help everyone. Unfortunately we elect social justice warriors to office (looking at you Janeese Lewis George) who will never in a million years agree to that. [/quote]

Politicians on the left will never admit their education policies are a failure, but the evidence is becoming harder and harder to ignore.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/opinion/red-states-good-schools.html

"Louisiana ranks No. 1 in the country in recovery from pandemic losses in reading, while Alabama ranks No. 1 in math recovery.

The state with the lowest chronic absenteeism in schools is Alabama, according to a tracker with data from 40 states.

Once an educational laughingstock, Mississippi now ranks ninth in the country in fourth-grade reading levels — and after adjusting for demographics such as poverty and race, Mississippi ranks No. 1, while Louisiana ranks No. 2, according to calculations by the Urban Institute. Using the same demographic adjustment, Mississippi also ranks No. 1 in America in both fourth-grade and eighth-grade math.

Black fourth graders in Mississippi are on average better readers than those in Massachusetts, which is often thought to have the best public school system in the country (and one that spends twice as much per pupil)."[/quote]

Cherry-picked data. Using the Urban Institute’s demographically adjusted numbers (https://www.urban.org/research/publication/states-demographically-adjusted-performance-2024-national-assessment), Alabama (which you tout as a model of math instruction), is 46th in 8th grade math. Massachusetts (which you insist must have “failed education policies” because of how the state votes in presidential elections), is in the top five in all four metrics, and has the best demographically-adjusted 8th grade reading scores in the country.

Maybe it’s not as simple as a 1:1 correlation between presidential vote and education policy? [/quote]

The difference is standards. That's it. A little accountability would go a long way. DC instead believes in social promotion and eliminating racial disparities by making school so easy that no one can possibly fail. We see where that's gotten us. No other school system in this country spends so much money and has so little to show for it. [/quote]

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