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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Or mine, but I've set my sights on a happier outcome for my children.

The SW housing projects are tougher places to grow up than the Brent parents setting their sights on Jefferson Academy seem to understand.  If you haven't worked in that community, the harsh realities of childhoods spent there can be something of an abstraction, even from your row house just a mile north.  [/quote]

It's not like ALL the kids at JA come from the "housing projects."  SW is bigger than that.  I know some lovely families living there and planning to attend the public schools (some will be 2nd Generation Jefferson students.)  But at the same time, I do agree with one thing that you're saying: it's naive and harmful for wealthy DC to ignore the yawning income gap in DC, then be so "shocked!!" when they find out about it when they have to share public resources with those families.  Surprise: poor people get shafted in the US!  I don't think denial is really useful and probably leads to a boomerang segregation/racism effect.  [/quote]

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