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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Paying hundreds of millions of dollars to renovate failing schools clearly hasn't worked, and that was Kaya's idea. Maybe someone else will actually have a plan.[/quote]

So you think that kids from tougher situations should be left with crappy conditions in their schools?

Congratulations, you get the heartless award of the day.[/quote]

Congrats, YOU get the heartless and brainless award of the day.

I'm not the previous PP, but her point is clear. Shiny buildings do not great schools make -- as we can see in any of the recent academic scores. Rather than continue to fail kids and more kids, those dismal schools should be closed down, and a serious plan established to offer a better alternative. One hundred million dollars equal either one shinny school building or 2-year salaries for 1,000 teachers.

Admit it, you don't care about the kids.[/quote]

NP. I think the sad reality is that the schools are actually being renovated for the projected growth of white children in the area. They knew they wouldn't get any of the white families currently pushing strollers around Petworth to consider Roosevelt if they'd left it in the condition it was in - for decades - when the area was still primarily AA.

Plenty of schools in non-gentrifying areas that continue to rot, if it makes you feel any better about how money is being spent on capital development.

But truthfully, by the time kids reach high school the damage is way past done.  You can't expect changes in achievement two years after a renovation.[/quote]

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