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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ward 3 parent here- I have zero problem with the language. In fact, I applaud it. [/quote]

I assume that you send your child EOTR for school so that you can be part of the solution [/quote]

The solution is to have good schools in every neighborhood so no kid has travel across the city to get a good education. Do you disagree?[/quote]

can you point to any good high schools that draw from extremely poor populations? Good schools everywhere is another way of saying 'not my problem' from people who know that the biggest factor in whether or not a school is good is the level of education of the students' parents.[/quote]

DCPS *has* to find a way because it does have enough students with educated parents to go around.[/quote]

exactly. what kind of magical thinking is it to posit that distributing white people equally throughout schools would fix everything?[/quote]

Hmmm how many poor white people move here? Hmmmm what do high SES parents give and do for schools? 
Or is it just you want those resources to mostly benefit white children?[/quote]

Do you mean the resources donated by the parents?[/quote]

Of the students in DCPS as of SY 19/20 74% of the 51k kids are economically disadvantaged. That leaves about 13k students across all schools who are not. DCPS operates 117 schools. So you could spread all those children out and have 113 non economically disadvantaged students at each school in DCPS. Do you really think that number would be concentrated enough at schools the size of Wilson to make it have any additional resources? It also presumes that all or most of the 26% are in some position to donate in large amounts and do so. It also assumes that non economically disadvantaged students are spread equally across the grade spectrum. I would hazard a guess that you find larger concentrations of these populations in the lower elementary grades across the system. There are not enough non economically disadvantaged students in all of DCPS to spread them across the schools like some panacea for fixing the issues in failing schools.[/quote]

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