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First, I aware of studies that say it is not harmful to the high SES student, but I have never heard of a study that says it is beneficial for a high SES student to commute to a low SES high school.  (And the former are questionable.)

So I would love to see one of the studies to which you referred.

Nonetheless, it wouldn’t change my view.  It seems if it is beneficial to everyone to commingle Wilson, Roosevelt, and Coolidge students, then it would be a social injustice not to intermingle Roosevelt, Coolidge, Ballou, and Anacostia instead.[/quote]

Translation:  Show me data that refutes my preconceived notions.  Wait, you actually have data? Well, f that.  I'm gonna ignore the data because [word salad].[/quote].

+1. What would be the bet benefit of commingling 4 HIGH poverty schools?[/quote]

Look, the most vocal advocates for merging the populations of Wilson and EOTP high schools are people living EOTP that want access to Wilson without moving.

The point is that if it is good for students to be in more racially and economically diverse schools, then why aren’t the EOTP schools wanting to merge with EOTR schools?  Wouldn’t that have benefits for the students at Ballou and Anacostia?  But, funny, people seem to only want the integration to go in one direction...[/quote]

I live EoTP and would send my kids to West, Roosevelt, or Coolidge. I probably would have to visit Ballou. I have a coworker who went to Ballou. Based on her stories, they rarely had a full day of school on year because kids kept pulling the fire alarms. If there is still that level of disruption than it isn’t worth my time to take my kid there for school. I think there are behavioral problems that administrators can’t or don’t want to fix. There are behavioral nightmares I don’t want my kid to put up with there. Granted, Ballou May have improved since my coworker went there. I don’t know any current parents or students there.[/quote]

If you are saying you are ok sending your kids to Coolidge or Roosevelt, I bet your kids are not close to HS age yet. Wait until they are before you make declarations like that. Do you think DCPS Leadership would ever send their kids to Dunbar, Cardozo, Roosevelt, Eastern or Coolidge. No way in hell would they consider any of these schools for their own kids. And sadly, Ballou has not improved since your coworker went there. Go visit any of these schools and ask to sit in a couple of classes. It will be a real eye opener.[/quote]

I have a 5th and 8th grader, does that count? DCPS leadership is black/AA, they have different challenges than we do. I have been around some of the higher achieving kids from Roosevelt and Coolidge, have you?! They are great kids. DCUM excels at creating caricatures of low income kids (that you haven’t met nor may ever meet). For an educated crowd, you’re pretty stupid.[/quote]

Resorting to name calling. How juvenile! Come back next year when you have actually enrolled your student at one of these schools. I was recently speaking with a Coolidge HS graduate who completed precalculus at Coolidge which is the highest level of math they offer. He said he placed into remedial math at college and he couldn’t get over how far behind other kids he was even though he got straight As at Math in Coolidge. Of course there are nice and smart kids at every DCPS school. It is tragic how DCPS is shortchanging them.[/quote]

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