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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Great, use Jefferson for your children. I don't want my sweet, bright, book-hungry kids there in class there with lots of tough students who are far behind academically, even if mine were to go on to score 5s on PARCC tests. A good mix of kids at a neighborhood middle school would be great. But Jefferson doesn't have a good mix of kids and won't for who knows how long, probably 10 or 15 years. Most of the students are from families who aren't just poor, they've been in desperate circumstances for generations.  I'm not white but I am a product of hard-charging, uplifting, heavily Asian NYC middle and high school test-in programs.  I'd use BASIS before Jefferson. [/quote]

Schools aren't something you personally "use." They are community institutions.  Sorry you think that most of your community is lesser than your "sweet, bright, book-hungry kids."  [/quote]

Different PP.  Christ, you really are an insufferable, holier than thou bleeding heart. You're not helping your cause by putting down rational sounding posters. Hint: American parents with graduate degree and good jobs almost never send their kids to schools where almost all the other students are poor and minority, wherever they live.    [/quote]

you should have fcking thought of this before you MOVED TO DC. you don't get special treatment in public institutions for having gone to grad school and being white. sorry you can't accept the consequences of gentrification. [/quote]

I'm not white, and I'm not banking on staying in DC for MS and HS. Hope it works out, not sure it will.  We're not dealing with the consequences of gentrification as much as we're dealing with obnoxious racial politics in a poorly administered city. As a low SES graduate of a famous test-in program in another big East Coast city, I'm not looking for special treatment in public institutions.  I'm disappointed that DC lacks ambition for its strongest students of all races across the socioeconomic spectrum.

Hands on DC, Congress.  [/quote]

I don't want pig faced Jason chafitz to run DC, but I'm also disappointed in the lack of test in programs. [/quote]

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