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[quote=Anonymous][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]

So you're telling that poster "hey! YOU chose to move here!  Yes it's a total dump but we aren't changing a thing!  Don't you dare bring any new ideas or except any change. Now just hand over those tax dollars and shut up!"

- brown gentrifier[/quote]

no, you misunderstand. I think Hill parents absolutely have a right to push for improved Hill schools. I object to the ones who demand segregation/special treatment because they can't possibly have their kids go to school with their brown neighbors. [/quote]

No, you misunderstand.  Hill parents aren't demanding segregation/special treatment because they can't possibly have their kids go to school with their brown neighbors.  Claiming that this is true doesn't make it true.  What parents are asking for are pleasant and safe school environments, decent facilities and, above all, suitably challenging academics and strong instruction for the children of a large new professional class in the city, and other children who work above grade level, a demographic DCPS prefers to ignore.  Urban public school programs catering to students working above grade level exist from Chicago to New York, from Boston to Miami.

When DCPS insists on dumping middle school-age kids working at an 8th grade level in math, English, science, social studies etc. classes with kids working at a 3rd or 4th grade level, everybody suffers, particularly educators.  We know many families on the Hill, including "brown people," where the parents are ridiculous braniacs, designing Mars rovers and satellites for NASA, writing legislation for Reps and Senators, serving as senior military officers, civil servants, judges etc.  Their children tend to be working ahead of grade level, sometimes far ahead.  Other than BASIS, with no guaranteed spots and chronically weak facilities, DC public isn't trying to meet the educational needs of these families at the middle school level, although parents pay hefty property and income tax to the city.

The arrangement isn't helping advance the city's development trajectory. Nobody wins. PC control freaks think they're winning by cheer leading for the dismal status quo, decrying the racism supposedly fueling demands for serious middle school test-in programs, but they aren't. Boo.

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