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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My primary reaction to these scores is concern - and dismay.  DC/DCPS really needs to figure out how to help all the students in DCPS.  There are so many schools with scores below 10%, the MS in Ward and have 1-2% of the students tested proficient at grade level in reading and math and I think none or almost none are advanced.  That means less that [u]less then 10 students[/u] in grades 6-8 enrolled in DCPS in Ward 8 tested as on grade level.  We as a city are failing to educate these kids.  The difference between white and black,  white and Hispanic, the haves and the have nots  in D.C. is staggering.  I know this has been a focus of DCPS for some time but whatever they are doing is not working. I know this is nothing new (unfortunately) but it just makes me so mad and also sad.  I know people who work in these schools who try so hard and are so frustrated and discouraged by these scores.  I really want to know if there are urban school systems that managed to turn around a significant number of struggling schools.  It just feels impossible yet we as community need all of our children to be educated.

I just think the schools that are really struggling should be of more concern.[/quote]

"We as a city are failing to educate these kids"?  You are well intentioned.  But the reality is that no public school system can reverse the course set in motion by poor decision making.  Single mothers having multiple babies with multiple fathers is a guaranteed fast pass to generational poverty.  If only the political leaders in this city would say what needs to be said.  That would go a long way towards closing the DCPS achievement gap.

Look at Hearst.  Same teachers, same books, same school resources.  Almost 50-50 diversity.  [b]But the white students are 75%+ meeting or exceeding expectations for math and English for college.  Meanwhile, minority students are at the 20% or lower. DCPS is not the problem, for once. [/b][/quote]

So you are saying that [b]white parents make better parenting decisions then minority families and because of this white children do better[/b] and that if our city leaders would just call minorities out on this it would help  close the achievement gap?

I don' even know where to start....

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Generally speaking, yes -- especially when the "parenting decision" is not having children in your teens, before being married or finishing your education or having a job.  Unfortunately, this happens much more to minority families in DC than it does to white families.

And it's not a matter of city leaders simply calling minorities out about this -- it's that you can't begin to solve a problem until you've acknowledged it - and you address it, directly.

It would have been nice if firing half the teachers and raising the salaries of the remaining half had worked, but that was a stupid plan from the beginning.  So it's time to be realistic and confront the issue head on.[/quote]

What did you have in mind?  We could try to coerce the pregnant teens into having abortions, but that's Planned Parenthood's job.  [/quote]

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