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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hasn’t all the data since the 1960s Coleman report (https://hub.jhu.edu/magazine/2016/winter/coleman-report-public-education/) shown that educational outcomes are linked to family wealth?

If this is true then is the resistance to more integration/ the desire to be “in boundary” just a social construct/concern? Wealthier kids will still perform fine in a school population where there are numerous children from poorer backgrounds.

Or perhaps wealthier parents don’t believe that? Or perhaps they want to take advantage of better funded PTOs for more resources. Or maybe just to have network opportunities within their communities? All reasons to go private - which in DC is unattainable for most. Or maybe parents equate low performance with more disruption in class - is there evidence for this?

I think this forum could do better with which shorthand it uses around school performance and what the real issues are. Many of the DC school buildings have been rebuilt and are lovely so it’s not “the school” in a physical sense that we are talking about either…
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Whittier is lovely, a high performing school and literally has a Rats of NIMH colony terrorizing the school. Having more MC and whiny parents would force DGS to fix the issue. [/quote]

Whittier’s building is a disaster at this point.  But the city built MacArthur before preventing small children from going to a rodent infested school.  Oh and there was the air quality issue in the building last year.  Now when Whittier finally gets renovated the swing space will be more than 2 miles from the school.  And the mayor’s office does not care.  It should have been renovated much earlier.  And yet I’m sure if you moved this school to CC it would have been renovated ten years ago.[/quote]

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