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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]But when those mothers try that, they get labeled as "nice white parents" and face backlash. 
The only acceptable thing from the liberal POV is to send your kid to an under-performing school and accept its poor performance as part of its "culture," which is insulting to the new and old families there alike.[/quote]

That's what strange. High SES parents crowding together is "hoarding resources." OK, what resources? Money? No, you can look at the funding, schools with higher SES usually get less money in the DCPS budget. The resources are apparently the families themselves and their approach to education. It's so valuable that we need to break this group up and spread it around the city so we can have this approach everywhere.

Except, no, now the same people are saying when these families get to a new school they new to be deferential to the approach that was going on there, and they don't want the new families trying to change anything. They need to act like second class citizens, their opinions shouldn't carry the same weight as the other families. They don't want them to do anything for the school; people are just happy they're no longer making their original school successful.

So if you don't think others should follow their approach, why are you even sending them there in the first place? The whole proposal just seems to stem from resentful people that want to tear down the schools in this city that are functioning the best.[/quote]

I actually haven't find this to be true -- I know it's said a lot but look at how schools have changed across DC as the population has changed. There have clearly been improvements that have benefited all kinds of families. I am most familiar with the capitol hill schools in the early to mid-2000's. There were poorer families in those schools who wanted more but either didn't have the social capital or time or whatever to get those changes. It's odd that people think the families who are already in place don't want better for their students. The few instances that I am aware of where there was the pushback that's being described in this thread involved "nice white families" who were pushing for increasing class sizes in the older mostly black grades so that their students in the proportionally much whiter lower grades could have lower class sizes and additional aides. If there is pushback on ideas for improvement, people should examine whether the improvements suggested benefit one group but disadvantage others. [/quote]

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