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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People want to have it both ways:

Improve the environment of the low-scoring, high poverty schools (like Ballou or Dunbar) and then pretend there is something wrong with families who want to shield their children from the elements at those schools.  Schools aren't just a collection of classes - they're a culture of expectations and interactions.  So you want to improve the one because there are problems, and then name-call people who want to avoid problems.

Makes no sense.[/quote]

Once again -- because I think you or someone else keeps on making this "you can't have it both ways" argument in different DCPS threads: NOBODY is saying you have to send your kid to Dunbar.  Nobody is saying that high-poverty DCPS schools have no problems.  The point is that gentrifiers don't have the right to completely take over schools and railroad everyone else's interests.  If you say things like "I don't care about getting rid of free aftercare, the poor parents can suck it up" then yes, I will name call you.  [/quote]

This. And I will help her, because I have an issue with calling some children "the wrong element." I have personally attended and worked in both rich and poor schools. In both environments I saw much of the same behavior--and a lot of it wasn't good. It's just that rich kids don't get a criminal record when they're caught cutting, or bringing a knife to school. On the other hand, studies have shown consistently that a diverse population is good for all students. You need to be less frightened of people you consider the wrong element.[/quote]

Congratulations.  [i]You[/i] are the one who introduced the phrase "the wrong element" to this thread.  You must be very proud.[/quote]

And one assumes you are the woman who used the phrase, "shield their children from the elements at those schools." Does that mean something different? Were  talking about rain?  Aluminum? Tennessine? [/quote]

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