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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]to 10:15 - some poverty-stricken kids will benefit just by being in a classroom with middle class kids, but many suffer from effects of poverty than can't be overcome by school influences.   This is what DCPS refuses to believe and why its school reform is such a failure.

Charters can't solve the problem either, as 12:33 explains.

It would have been nice for kids in the middle class and kids in poverty if the fantasy that all it takes is a good teacher for all kids to learn had been true.

It's not true.  It's a fantasy,  a failed doctrine and a false dogma not supported by research, the costly DCPS experiment or common sense.

And yet it continues.[/quote]

I think you missed my point, PP, that some kids need to be boarded and that the school must take on the role of parent for those kids.[/quote]

This whole.idea of kids needing to go to boarding school to counter act the cultural influences of their home and neighborhood makes me thing of the Native American boarding schools. We as a country had the same thoughts about Indian children-- that their home culture was terribly inadequate and didn't fit the society's notion of healthy/successful.  Small children were forced to go to boarding schools where their appearance, dress, language, religion, eating habits etc. Were "normalized".  All along America and Americans were convinced they were doing God work and were in the best interest of the kids and the nation.

Of course we look back now and are horrified and call it what it was:  cultural genocide.  If you have ever been on an Indian reservation, you know the policy resonates today in terrible ways.

So I get nervous when people start advocating that children need to be removed from their families and cultures in large numbers in order to civilize and educate them "properly".  It requires some real examination.[/quote]

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