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[quote=Anonymous]I read the article and my only criticsm of the article is that it leads one to believe that this is a problem only for DC schools.  I would suggest that this is a problem for most students graduating from urban inner city (or poor rural) schools.  I am a gradaute of Georgetown University and I went to public high school in Brooklyn, NY.  That article could have been about me...the parallels are almost on point. I graduated 2nd in my class, got admitted to Georgetown as a Community Scholar.  Serioulsy struggled my freshman year.  Figured out by my second year because failure simply wasn't an option for me.  Got (hands down in my opinion  :) ) one of the best educations ever at Georgetown and went on to law school where I excelled.  That story could have just as easily been about many of my friends from schools in Maryland, LA, Chicago, Boston, etc.  Many of us experienced what this article highlights, and can speak to how we felt lost, confused, bamboozled by our high schools, and less deserving of our white counter parts or other minority friends who parents did send them to private and/or boarding schools.

The reality is that urban inner city schools are seriously failing our kids.  We often think only the kids who are struggling have been failed, and forget that even the hardworking smart kids are being failed too.  I have already decided to either move into one of the so called "rich" suburbs so my daughter can get a good public education or suck it up and pay for private school.  [/quote]

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