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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]What's shameful is a system that makes it so you can only go to a good school if you can afford to buy a house in a neighborhood zoned for one.[/quote]

What's shameful is the multi-generational poverty and cultural rejection of achievement in much of DC.

I assert that there are very "good schools" — nay, excellent [i]schools[/i] —  in DCPS where 50-98% of the student population come from families described above.  The "schools" aren't the problem.[/quote]

If your assertion is correct (which I don't really buy), that's also a product to the same system that has given us segregated housing and tied education directly to it.[/quote]

No.  Eight generations out, it’s no longer “the system’s” fault that a significant number of District  families reject school of any kind. [/quote]

I have no idea what you mean by eight generations out. DC's schools were desegregated by law until 1954 and then in practice until the early 1970s. Yes, the system is rotten.[/quote]

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