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Failing students? Did you listen to the show? The kids who have parents willing to travel 30 miles away do not have "failing students". It's the schools that are failing those kids.  For the most part, parents who are going to extremes to get their kids into better schools are doing so because they value education and want more for their children. They are not unlike you...they just don't have the money to live next door to you. Separate will always be unequal. [/quote]

Failing schools don't become failing by themselves.  It is students that make a school fail.

No one opens a new school and labels it failing.

The same with affluent white schools.  No one openeded on and said "this will be a good school".  There is no magic.

The parents work with their kids at home.  They tutor them, read to them, engage them in activities, volunteer at school, work in PTA, advocate for goid teachers and practices, fundraise for the school.  It's a lot of work.  It's not just this entitlement tfat the school owes them, it's also what you bring to the school.[/quote]

This. 1 million x this. Please start taking ownership of your own failures as a community, white people are simply more involved in their child's education and results are for everyone to see. I understand that parents with struggling finances may not be involved much but that's true for struggling whites, AA, Asians, Mexicans etc. Financial issues treat every race more or less the same. No, this is not a race issue this is entitlement and failure to take responsibility as a community. Improve the culture of education within your community, then talk about schools. Education is too important to be left to the schools.[/quote]You really have no clue how well-to-do parents are so much more empowered to take on school systems and get what their kids need.  Many poor parents who don't have good educations are much more likely to accept whatever the school system tells them because they don't know they have the right to demand something different.  I tutored a kid whose family sent her brothers to a less than adequate charter school because of someone they met from that school on the metro.  At least one of the kids should have been applying to the magnet schools in DC but his parents didn't know what their options were and just went with the path of least resistance.  They are basically good people but they grew up believing that good people do what they're told.  That would never fly with DCUMers who come from a very different class background.

Let's acknowledge that our class background gives us enormous advantages with regards to our children's education.  Stop pretending there's a level playing field out there.[/quote]

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