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Reply to "Parents of DCPS HS graduates - were your kids prepared for college?"
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Highest predictor of academic success is education level of mother. That's why J-R is called "Yale or Jail." Parents who can supplement - supplement from an early age with weekend language classes, tutors, summer camps, internships. Those kids are prepared for college and would be prepared anywhere. [/quote] To be clear "Yale or jail" is widely recognized as a racist trope centered in the idea of Black exceptionalism (i.e. any outstanding Black student is one of a small number of "good ones", but most Black teens are inherently bad and destined for jail). Of course, the reality is that the overwhelming majority of non-college-bound kids who graduate from JR go on extremely positive and productive lives -- there are ROTC kids who join the military, kids who become firefighters, kids who become police officers, etc. In short, the people who do the day-to-day work that makes DC livable as a city and the US a functional country.[/quote]
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