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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Improve all schools so someone who doesn’t get into the magnet school isn’t disappointed. [/b]The magnet school becomes less about access to superior education and rather matching students to their proper level of academic rigor.

No one wins if it’s a zero sum game. It’s disappointing however that this discussion on racial disparity becomes more charged when Asian Americans are the majority. I hope the discourse stays away from “blaming” Asian Americans. [/quote]

Let me let you in on a little secret. Crappy schools aren't crappy because of the teachers or resources. They are crappy because of the large number of crappy students. If you switched the populations between Langley HS and some SE DC HS and kept everything else about the schools the same. The formerly crappy schools would become top performing. [/quote]

[b]What if the families swapped completely[/b]? Give those SE DC families the Langley parent's education/career/homes/bank accounts.

It's not like the kids are just born crappy. They are born into a crappy system that is tough to escape. 
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[b]How about taking the kids from these crappy families and letting the high achieving families foster them?[/b]  Many of these low achieving kids would have a real chance if they were under someone else's care and had to follow rules.  Obviously, there is no way that these parents can be taught how to parent effectively, since parenting is ingrained by a person's own childhood experience. This is the only way to break generations of crappy parenting that results in crappy academic achievement. [/quote]

Like Sandra bullock in the Blind Side. 
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