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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nope. Have you taught in a 4th tier school in DC? The poor schools in Ward 7/8 will NEVER outperform Janney for a few simple reasons.

1) Janney parents start having children at 30-35. Ward 7/8 parents start having children at half that age. And parents that delay having children tend to be better off financially and better able to parent, rather than cohabitate with, their children.

2) Middle/Upper class children enter school YEARS ahead of students at poor schools. At my 4th tier Ward 7 school, 5th graders read books like Junie B. Jones. Those books are kindergarten books at Janney.

3) most Ward 7/8 parents care NOTHING about improving their schools. Sorry if this is not politically correct, but it is true. Some, maybe 40%, give a shit about whether their one child is learning, but truly less than 5% care anything about volunteering at the school, joining a PTA, advocating for positive school change, etc. (This is most disgusting because the vast majority of parents at the school I worked at did not have jobs, so they had plenty of time to help their children/school. They chose not to.)[/quote]

Simply put, you do not know what you are talking about.  Do not generalize especially if you do not know the facts.  How do you pair "maybe" with "40%"?  Get your facts straight before spewing stereotypes and what you may hear on TV.  I always love to see the faces of people like you by chance meet me  or one of my neighbors from the "poor," "lazy" and "ignorant" ward 7/8 and are generally red with surprise when you sneak in questions about our professional, schools, cars, background and etc and are genuinely suprised that we are not welfare moms or crack heads, raising our crack babies.  Have you been to the wards that you seem to have a database of data to develop your statistics?  How long have you been in DC?  Do you know the history?  How many ward 7/8 parents do you know?[/quote]

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