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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Maybe, just maybe, most of the white families wouldn't cram into the same 15 schools if three things were true: 1) there were more supports for at-risk students across the board, particularly much improved instructor to student ratios, 2) social promotion was no longer automatic in DC public elementary or middle schools, and 3) DC were to pass a law on Gifted education mandating funded support for advanced learners, like MD and VA did 25 years ago.

When I was a kid in public school, consistently disruptive kids were routinely removed from general classrooms, and kids who didn't meet standards for grade-level work were commonly held back, forced to attend summer school and/or repeat grades. Not in DCPS or DCPC. [b]All it takes are 3 or 4 kids in your kids class who are seriously disruptive, and working 2 or 3 years behind grade level, to derail the learning experience for the others.[/b] In DC, such kids are generally poor and AA. Where I grew up, they were poor and white.[/quote]

This sums it up.  No parent, regardless of race or SES, who cares about their child's education will voluntarily place their child in that environment.  [/quote]

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