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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DC needs to go all-lottery for HS[/quote]

If you want to see well-off people make a run for the exits, that would be an excellent way to do it. [/quote]

+100.  Many middle and UMC families would leave the city.  They can easily go to VA and MD and gat tracking.  No one is going to wait around for the lottery and take a risk on high school.  Real estate prices fall, city loses property taxes, etc...[/quote]

Sad that racism is still this strong.[/quote]

Do you have kids?  Do you honestly believe that it's racist to not want to send your kids to a high school with a 3% PARCC pass rate for math?  If so, you are delusional.

Systematic racism, implicit bias and straight up old fashioned bigotry are a huge problem, but calling parents with options racists for not signing on to an utterly failing school doesn't help anybody.  I'm pretty sure that most parents at Anacostia would send their kids elsewhere if they had the option.[/quote]

+1 million and BTW I posted that above and am a minority who grew up poor but did well in school thanks to tracking.  Why doesn’t the poster who uses the race card ask any middle class AA family why they don’t send their kids to the failing schools.  Oh wait but they are racist too.....

That’s the problem with people using the race card to justify the failing of students.  You think putting them in a mixed high school classroom is going to do anything to improve their academic standing?  News for you, by that time it is too late and they are too far behind.  Look at the abysmal PARCC scores of DCPS high schools EOTP, single digits and kids that don’t even show up to school.  Staff has to beg and bribe them to come to school to take the PARCC test.  Oh but they will miraculously do better in classroom with high achieving kids.  BS.  [/quote]

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