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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"the kids" are not going to perform well is not the same as "the poor kids are going to infect my child's brain and prevent her from learning."  The truth is "those kids" may not perform well, but yours will.  Unless you believe that poverty is a disease and somehow somebody will take away your child's meals and peace at home.[/quote]

Wait are you saying that a big group of poorly performing kids will have no impact on the regular kids?? Seriously? So if, say, 50% of poor kids in DC have school issues - hunger, behaviour, home stress, whatever else (and a nominal percentage of richer kids do), you're saying that if my kid is the only richer kid in the class (so there are 50% poorly performing kids in that class) that my kid is going to have the same experience as when the school size doubles from an influx of richer kids (so now there are only 25% poorly performing kids in his class)? You can't be serious.

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Not PP, but I'll take a stab at answering -- it's not the same experience, no, but it's not the devastating threat to your child's academic experience many posters here to seem to think it is.

White kids in DCPS wouldn't be the top-performing group in the nation if the presence of poorly performing kids had as much of an impact as people say they do.[/quote]

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