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[quote=Anonymous][quote]  Nobody is advocating kicking poor people out of Ward 6 schools who actually live in Ward 6.  What people are advocating is right-sizing the ES offerings in Ward 6 so that its schools are true neighborhood schools instead of pulling in all sorts of OOB kids from other parts of the city and PG county. Ward 6 has socio-economic diversity that should be represented in the schools, but the schools should also accurately reflect the actual make-up of the community, which is heavily middle class.  [/quote]

What I'd really like to see are KIPP schools, DCPS-DCPC hybrids, opening at JO Wilson and Tyler (replacing the "traditional" program there) with LT and Payne closed.  Why?  Because low-income minority kids, still a big group up by FL Ave. and in Potomac Gardens, do significantly better in KIPP programs, offering more structure, extended school days, Saturday school, and shorter summer vacations than in tradtional programs with diverse student populations.

Studies show that while lower-middle-class kids, like the those at Brent bused from Bollling, do better in diverse schools than in relatively homogenous ones, lower-income AA kids do not.  Such kids are better off spending much more time in good schools than upper-middle-class kids, whose families tend to be stable, whose home environments tend to be uplifting, and whose high-earning parents can afford to pay for enrichment activities.  The different populations have different needs in ES, no point in pretending otherwise.

If JO Wilson and LT became KIPP schools serving FARMS kids alone, these kids would have a fighting chance of keeping up with upper-middle-class kids later, in middle and high school.  Representing great socio-economic diversity in neighborhood schools only sounds good when a neighborhood is split between the affluent and the really poor.

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