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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You all must be trolls.  It's a system that allows poor kids a chance to get up to a safe, quality education.  Give a kid who wants a better environment a chance to move up.  Get out of your west of the park high society security and come east and see how the other half lives.  You're afraid of vouchers because you know that expansion will cause your neighbors and even yourselves to take them up and go private.  Responsible parents want the best and safest education for their kids.  That's why charters are thriving too.[/quote]

Gimme a break with the hyperbole.  The entire city is nice these days, has been for a while.  Drive all through SE and you see awesome, renovated and new houses and clean, renovated city parks.  Yes, (gasp!) even dogs having fun in the parks.  The only truly awful part DC (in terms of uncleanliness, poor upkeep, and localized criminal activity) are the pockets of lower income that are public and subsidized housing.  That's what everybody complains about, but you accept it because we live in a society.

You don't have to raise the spectre of 1980's DC to make a solid argument for vouchers:  if the schools aren't good, then outgoing parents should use every opportunity to find a better spot.[/quote]

PP, you have no idea what you're talking about.  Why don't you volunteer in some of these lower performing neighborhood schools and then tell me how rosy everything is.  Ignorance is bliss for you.[/quote]

You're ignoring the point, "come out and see how the other half lives."  The "other half" is living just fine in DC; but that's a completely different matter than the performance of students in the schools.  The vast majority of DC no longer dodges bullets or lives in cratered, broken down streets and houses, other than in the pockets of misery described above.  But, admittedly, a good number of DCPS students live in those pockets, and go to DC public schools.  Just don't act like the entire city is some kind of garbage pit.  It ain't.[/quote]

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