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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^ [b]You blame the Van Ness organizer parents for being turf conscious when most don't have a lot of choice [/b]if they want to stay in the city.  Other big US cities--Chicago, Boston, Miami, NYC--run a variety of programs and offerings for advanced/gifted learners.  Even DC charter offers better options for advanced learners, e.g. the best language immersion programs and extensive math tracking at BASIS.  DCPS offers no such programs, leaving upper middle income parents with little choice but to fight to keep the schools they get involved in from becoming majority low SES.  The city generally leaves it up to parent organizations to raise funds to pay for support staff to run pullout groups for advanced learners.  Future Van Ness parents can't close the achievement gap in SW, but they may be able to support the opening of a viable school for their own children and a good many low SES kids, too.  Give em a break.

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No, I blame them for being "turf-conscious" (or, "proprietary with willful discriminatory intent") with a public good to which they have no more entitlement than the families on the other side of S. Capitol st. It's ugly rhetoric that will make for an ugly neighborhood dynamic and they most definitely have a choice over that.[/quote]

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