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I'm not trying to pick on you, but you're back to the 'poor kids can't learn' argument.[/quote]

I never said poor kids can't learn.  Students at our so-called "failing schools" ARE learning, but not all students learn at the SAME level and rate.  Test scores are highly correlated with SES.[/quote]

Agreed  - and it doesn't matter if I agree or not -- it's a FACT -- unlike some of the crap we've heard over the years.

This whole school reform mess in DC has been because of a denial by administrators that it was anything but crappy teachers who caused poor learning.  That was BS and replacing and evaluating teachers didn't make any difference in test scores -- they are still aligned to SES.  So maybe it's time to address the real problem?  to find ways to make up for some of the deficit between high and low SES students?  Or maybe not, if school administrators have no idea how to, so  instead they play more stupid games -- like trying to spread the high SES kids around, because that will at least make the scores go up a little - in the schools the high SES kids go to -- IF -- IF you can get them to fall for this shuffle that the DME is peddling.

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