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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It really is all about the parents. Not even the money they raise really impacts outcomes at the school as a whole. My kid attends a title 1 school EoTP, our HH income is over 300k. We just had a teacher conf and she is reading a grade level ahead already, she easily grasps math and Spanish. Why.  She has parent with three advanced degrees who read and write and speak with her. We expose her to travel and museums and interesting experiences. She has never known a day of hunger or housing insecurity. We have never let her play or watch a violent movie or video game. Screen time is limited and monitored. She is living in a safe and healthy bubble compared to a lot of her peers quite frankly. The achievement gap is evident in K and will only get bigger and has nothing to do with the teachers or PTA funding.  [/quote]

Teachers matter and the peers matter. DC is in 6th grade now and reads on 11th grade level.  I don't believe it but school wrote so. The levels must be easy.
 He plays violent video games, spends 6-7 waking hours watching youtube videos, each junk,  I've never been to a museum with him and we only have 1 degree between us. He stays with  father a lot and the neighborhood sucks. I left because there was shooting in front of the rowhouse and behind in section 8.We saw both from the window. HHI $36k maybe.
DC was on top of his high performing WTOP school because he fairly sharp kid surrounded by other sharp and smart kids. Teachers were great also, but it's easy to be a great teacher when the kids crasp the easy DCPS curriculum. 
My vote goes to peers. I suck as a parent.
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