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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]

This isn't accurate.  Ward 8 has one of the highest rate of charter attendance in the city.

E.g., "Even though students in Ward 8 are those most likely to live and attend school in the same ward, they are also among the least likely to attend their in-boundary public school, as only 20 percent of Ward 8 students go to the school in their neighborhood boundary."
https://www.dcpolicycenter.org/publications/new-education-data-urban/

Ward 8 is 92% AA:  https://www.dchealthmatters.org/demographicdata?id=131495[/quote]

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