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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As true as that is, in a triage situation, really any situation with scarce resources, it's hard to see how we don't prioritize the high schoolers who could become carjackers and then the kindergarteners who are on their way to becoming the next generation of carjackers.

Knowing that most of the top-grade students that we've got in DC could just go to private schools or move just tells us that DC's not going to and shouldn't focus on our kids. It's gonna focus on the children of the poor.

The problem is that educators don't know how to turn the children of the poor into high performers. Even medium performers. At least for anything beyond adopting the kids away from their actual parents. Which causes its own harm.[/quote]

The only way to help those kids is make their moms older when they have the kids, or not have the kids at all. That’s so far from what schools should be doing- even if yes public health authorities should be providing birth controls for free in schools. Spending more on those kids is just throwing good money after bad, except for the few who can make it out- who in turn are ill served by not being separated from the rest in gifted and talented programs they test into.[/quote]

Spend on your kids, not the majority of DC. Got it. [/quote]

Reallocating resources so that only a few thousand kids are on the college track and the majority are in vocational would, in the long run, be better for everyone in DC. It would certainly be cheaper than  what we do now, which is pretend like every single kid is a diamond in the rough when that’s demonstrably untrue.[/quote]

You deeply misunderstand the DC school population.  Black is not equal to poor.  And poor is not equal to hopeless and not worth of education.[/quote]
51% of kids from DC go to college, 18% of kids graduate in 6 years (let alone 4). DCPS isn’t helping the 82% the way they are structured.

They aren’t giving the 49% of kids what they need to succeed without going to college. And what they do provide isn’t preparing the vast majority of kids if they do go to college (“some college” is a predictor of a lot of terrible life outcomes). [/quote]

This may be true.

What's also true is that DC's school outcomes are changing rapidly as are the demographics of the city writ large and the school population.
https://edscape.dc.gov/page/pop-and-students-public-school-enrollment-by-race-and-ethnicity

The number of white students in the public school system has doubled since 2013 and the number of hispanic kids has increased by 60%.

Let's deal with both the system we have now and also the system it looks like we'll have ten years in the future.[/quote]

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