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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ok let me try again and again apologies for broad brushes

If you are high SES in DC you aren't even in public schools unless you are in NW (the rich white part or a tiny piece of capitol hill)

Most upper middle income people (largely white but other races as well leave DC at 3rd grade at the latest)

So who is left mostly poor people who are black and more and more Hispanics several years below education level this is why DC public schools suck and will always suck

Some of the charters are doing a bit better but there aren't enough good ones to make a dent in the system

And I agree with the PP since most of the students in Public Schools in DC are poor and black you are never going to have actual diversity in the current system

Unless you bus people out of rich white upper NW (which will never happen)

DC schools spend double to triple what other jurisdictions spend per student.

What does the average DCUM high SES person do?  Get the heck out of DC or send their kids to privates like any other parent would if they could afford to[/quote]

Thank you.  These facts (and I think they are all accepted facts on this board) show that the problem with under-performing student outcomes in DC has literally nothing to do with DCPS and its policies, personnel, or implementation.[/quote]

right, DCPS has nothing at all to do with it! It's perfect! Those poor black kids are just destined to fail anyway.[/quote]

Can you point to one, single school district anywhere in the United States, of any size, that has the demographics of dcps and does a really solid job with all of its poor African American students?  Do not  answer "charter XYZ" or "solitary school abc" in east LA.   I'm asking you to name an entire district full of poor AA kids where most of the kids are on grade level and graduate on time.

I will wait. [/quote]

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