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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Huh. I don't think of public schools as being for poor kids--I think of them as regular schools for regular people. Private school is for rich kids.

Signed, the 99%. [/quote]

You are so out of touch. There ARE some public schools that are in poor (impoverished) areas, not JKLMM, or BCC, or arlington...we are talking Southeast DC, Ward 5...those are poor students in poor schools.[/quote]

Sure, but that's a result of 60 years of regional (and national) public policy designed to create a system of apartheid where all the vast majority of poor kids are segregated in one or two isolated school districts. I'm hard-pressed to think of a single school in DC's Wards 7 or 8 that isn't at least 80% high poverty. Are there any schools with those kinds of numbers in MoCo, Fairfax, Loudon, etc???

And please, don't tell us, "Why, that's just where the poor people happen to live!" The poor people "happen" to live in those few neighborhoods in exactly the same way that black South Africans "happened" to live in Soweto. To the exact same effect.[/quote]

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