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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People want to have it both ways:

Improve the environment of the low-scoring, high poverty schools (like Ballou or Dunbar) and then pretend there is something wrong with families who want to shield their children from the elements at those schools.  Schools aren't just a collection of classes - they're a culture of expectations and interactions.  So you want to improve the one because there are problems, and then name-call people who want to avoid problems.

Makes no sense.[/quote]

Once again -- because I think you or someone else keeps on making this "you can't have it both ways" argument in different DCPS threads: NOBODY is saying you have to send your kid to Dunbar.  Nobody is saying that high-poverty DCPS schools have no problems.  The point is that gentrifiers don't have the right to completely take over schools and railroad everyone else's interests.  If you say things like "I don't care about getting rid of free aftercare, the poor parents can suck it up" then yes, I will name call you.  [/quote]

Who cares if you name call?  I don't.  If people come in and improve a school, they're going to want it to be, you know - [i]improved[/i].  That may mean better aftercare that is subsidized for lower SES families.

You can't want these families to bring resources that improve your school and simultaneously resent them for doing so.  At least, not if you intend to make a [i]logical[/i] argument.  [/quote]

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