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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]regarding deconcentration --seems like some of those poor kids could just be bussed to good DC schools instead of moving to the suburbs.[/quote]

Sounds an awful lot like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic to me.[/quote]

Sounds a lot like  giving poor kids a chance to get educated around more functional kids (as per the study mentioned above) without requiring a family move.

Of course, this strategy would also prevent gentrifiers from moving into the deposed poor people's homes[/quote]

Try to think with your brain instead of your heart for just a second. Where exactly are you going to bus these kids? I'm serious, I'd really like to know. Should we just send every child in the city to Deal and Wilson? Think.

The optimal situation would be to have regional busing, where kids from the poorest neighborhoods are bused to good schools, and vice versa. But, conveniently, MD and VA school districts happen to be segregated from the districts where the poor people live. So, like countless middle-class parents before them, we're going to have to enable a larger proportion of poor folks to get their kids a decent education in the suburbs. [/quote]

Fine, bus them to the suburbs - OK with me, if there's a legal way of pulling it off.  I bet this won't satisfy some gentrifiers who want the poor people's DC real estate at least as much as they want the poor children to get a good education -- somewhere else.[/quote]

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