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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Gentrification requires gentry , i.e., more children of gentry occupying the schools than non-gentry, meaning a lot of non's have to move out in order for the schools to become middle-class.

Some get to stay to be influenced by the gentry-children, but what happens to the others?  Where do they go?

Really - for more schools to become middle-class enough to benefit the low-income kids, those kids have to become the minority in all DC schools.  This means many will have to leave town.

That seems to be what it's all about -- please, most of you, just leave town so we gentrifiers can let our wonderfulness rub off on the few of you who stay behind.

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You are so wrong.  As stated before, as Brent becomes more gentrified, more taxpayer resources shift to other neighborhood schools that need more resources.  So where do the OOB kids go if they are pushed out of Brent?  Well, first, no one is pushed out unless they actually live outside of DC (a shockingly large number at Brent were MD residents a few years ago).  To the extent that Brent is no longer an easy option for folks in other neighborhoods to use is likely not that big a deal to them because it is likely that their own DC neighborhood school is improving-- to some extent because Brent is not costing as much to run as it used to when it was underenrolled by the neighborhood families.

Can you see that this zero sum mentality is completely wrong??  The idea that if one school is improving it must be hurting another school?  that if one child is happy, another child must be hurt??  Where does this concept come from?  Point out one DCPS school that has been hurt by the success of another DCPS school.

And low-income kids don't need to leave town for the schools to provide better experiences to all kids.  Ridiculous!  What needs to happen is there needs to be more low income housing (and better rent control, etc.) mixed in all neighborhoods rather than just have low-income housing in certain areas of the city.  That is something folks in the Brent neighborhood have pushed for, although without as much success as they would like.      [/quote]

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