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[quote=Anonymous]I like how on this thread "being in schools with lots of minorities" is implicitly being linked with "being in failing schools."

I don't think anyone wants to equate them, but if we look at results, that's the way it's going, and people here are reacting to it. Some negatively/prudently, some hopefully/against the norm.

We have a huge gap in educational attainment at adult levels between upper class DC and lower class DC, with nobody in the middle, and we have neighborhood segregation to match. Adult educational attainment and child expectations go hand in hand. Nobody in this whole Fing country seems to know how to produce good outcomes for families with poor educational attainment for adults, except in anecdotal individual cases, which are great stories that don't count for shit.

In Mount Pleasant and nearby, there are not many places where low-education and low-income families live any more. The neighborhood has changed over. Their educational program is dual language but they aren't Title I any more next year.

In my opinion it's a bigger deal that we get our children with poor expected outcomes to 'normal' than that we get those with good expected outcomes to 'optimal.' That cuts against my own kids. Yours too probably.

But if we want any reason to expect a better future, it's probably important to look at this the way the Principal does, with an eye toward strengthening her programs and securing lower-income family participation toward the future. At this point, dual language at Oyster is just a bonus, it doesn't really help anybody succeed. Bancroft could be the same way soon without intentionality on this. It's important that we as the haves center the have-nots.

I hope these views add to what you might think about this topic.[/quote]

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