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[quote=Anonymous]99% of these comments come down to

Our school is great because of it's diversity and we don't care what you think of it but we are all aboard the "send some kids to your school" train. Wink wink to which kids we are talking about

We like our school as it is because we paid a premium to avoid your problems that you proclaim to love

Got it nobody wants to give up the good stuff but is open to offloading problems but it seems that most people on both sides agree what the problems are.  The DCC feels the pinch of their proximity to poverty concentration and the decades of eye rolls and ridicule have created a us VS them midframe with the poor schools have nothing to lose with just about any redistribution plan as they have most of the FARMs now. The more impacted the good schools are by any plan the DCC sees it as closing the gap at best and just petty revenge at worst. That said the Ws have been granted special status for a long time and that gets harder to justify with modern optics.

But look at Whitman area though, you would have to get very creative to add poverty. That whole side of the Metro area is wealthy and butts up to the richest parts of VA and DC, it will never be as poor as the best Silver Spring School.  Same for Churchill and a lesser extent BCC, there simply is no magic bullet the school system can apply to fix a population that has self segregated into a rich side and a poor side. What everybody is doing here is arguing about the demilitarized zone a mile or two east and west of Conn Ave [/quote]

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