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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You can't say this in liberal areas like DC, but many, many poor people don't give a sh*t about education. We pretend they care every much as doctors in Cleveland Park but it's not true. Some people care and try really hard, and some people don't.  [/quote]

Ok, but a lot do, or they wouldn't send their kids to charters which require more from the families than DCPS does. If you look at DCPS schools where only 20% of the neighborhood kids are going, you're missing a lot of involved parents who are going elsewhere. [/quote]

It's not poor people who are sending their kids to charters. It's highly educated white people who can't afford to buy a home in Ward 3, who consider the neighborhood schools in their non-Ward 3 wards to be unacceptable. [/quote]

It is absolutely poor people. KIPP and DC Prep, just to name a couple of popular LEAs, are not getting highly-educated white people. None of the DCPS neighborhood high schools besides Wilson are getting more than about a quarter of their zoned students, and only a small fraction of those are white kids. You just don't know about the charters that aren't aimed at you. [/quote]

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