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And what about raising the standards of the schools outside of Ward 3.  People are kidding themselves if they think this proposal would do that.  It does NOTHING to help the failing schools.   They will slide even lower.   It is great that many parents outside of the Deal/Wilson district schlep their kids across town to attend the feeder schools and get involved in the schools.  It's what makes these schools great.  But it doesn't work the other way around.  Ward 3 high SES parents are simply not going to schlepp their kids across town to Eastern or Coolidge and invest in those schools.  They will leave.  So for the lesser performing schools there will be flight for the lucky lottery winners and no injection of needed resources, human or otherwise.  A city-wide lottery for HS is a lose-lose situation.    [/quote]

Okay - what do you mean by "raising the standards?"  Are you suggesting that the teachers and principals in those schools have lower standards than those WOTP?  Or that DCPS hasn't offered the kinds of back-up programs that would help kids get up to standard?  What?

Seriously, we have to get over this idea, instilled by Michelle Rhee and the whole "No Child Left Behind" ethos, that there is something inherently wrong with the schools that are "failing."

It becomes an insult to the children in those schools that we look past them -- given all the evidence we have now, about the effects of poverty, that anyone in a position to help children would be instead focused on firing adults and closing buildings  - or assuming if you transport the kids to another building with another set of adults, everything will be fine.[/quote]

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