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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I might be horrible, but I'm a person of color who grew up poor, FARMs all the way. Without white and middle-class peers in school, I wouldn't have thought to go to college, or if I had gone, I probably wouldn't have graduated, no matter how strong the academics were. Without a diverse HS in my background, college and law school wouldn't have been on my horizon.

I earn 150K and live in a house in which I have at least 700K of equity. I want those boys to have what I have. Sadly, a racially and economically segregated environment in school probably won't put them on a path to prosperity, or integration into the larger society. Wish things were different. So please spare me your holier than thou bleeding heart diatribe. No, I don't like the set-up at the Ron Brown School for Boys.  [/quote]

I don't think you are horrible and can understand your point.  But then again, for many of those boys, getting a high school diploma will be an achievement they would otherwise not have reached.

Maybe they don't go on to college but their positive high school experience gives the opportunity to learn more than they would have at another DCPS school and gives them a better appreciation for education which they in turn pass on to their own children and they then try and do better in terms of education for their own children as well.

You have to realize that you are the exception not the rule and that the vast majority of those who grow up very poor will not escape.  For most, it will be slow climb over generations.

On another issue, I was dismayed to read from several of the boys that they would purposely act out to get suspended from school and it would work. I have to wonder if the suspension process is just encouraging worse behavior at DCPS middle schools and if the schools started changing that approach if some of the behaviors might change?[/quote]

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