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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]15:51 again. This is all especially hard in a city like DC, where something like 70-75% of the students in the city fit the definition of "H/PBH." If they are spread out evenly among all schools, then all schools will be majority H/PBH. That seems likely to create a downward spiral for all those schools, without much benefit other than letting some people claim they "promoted equity.[/quote]

More than 70% of my grandmother's poor farming community in one of American's breadbaskets were... poor. And, although I'm sure now someone will chime with a lecture about nuclear families and how those were happier, simpler times, they had just as many obstacles to overcome. Just as much abuse, poverty, malnutrition, domestic violence, etc.

And yet, because there was an optimism, a belief that we were making a better future, most of them went to land grand universities, got jobs, and made a better life for their klids.

Please, stop blaming the people caught in this mess instead of blaming the system that bilks them at every term. Trust me, every parent wants a good education for their kids. Every parent wants the same things you do. And you are just as likely to have your kids catch cooties from the family that jetted in from Zurich as the ones from Deanwood. [/quote]

You are naive. My parent grew up dirt poor in the holler in WV and managed to climb out of poverty.   They grew up around nothing but other poor people.   There were different acceptable " norms" than what you see in an urban school system. Too many poor AA kids are growing up on a steady stream of violent rap music, parents who scream "fuck" at the playground and think smoking weed hanging at the shelter at the playground is normal.   This is just the tip of the iceberg.   I live close to a park where I see this almost daily and close to the projects where the kids have zero role models.   Spreading them around the school system isn't going to address the fact that bey are so far behind their high I come peers by the time they start K. This why everyone knows that empowering black males high school is a joke.  It's way too late.

So what do you propose...just give up?[/quote]

Apparently so. Because smoking and violent rap music. The kids aren't really even behind, in my experience. And I wasn't making it a black and white thibg--it isn't, except in the minds of some posters who have long since fled for the car school boards. But it is a rich and poor thing. Intensely.[/quote]

internventkon needs to happen at birth.  Look at the Harlem model. They start at birth and teach the PARENTS how to teach their babies and toddlers. this is critical.  so many of these parents are holding their kids back and are the single biggest risk factor to their own kids.    the test data shows something like a 65 point gap between white and black kids in DC.  Only a fool would think that gap could be closed in high school.   nothing.at that point steering kids to vocational training or the military is the solution to get them employed. [/quote]

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