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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The whole city should be outraged. It wouldn't occur to a lot of other places/cities that they need to fight and constantly lobby for safe, 50-90 % at grade level or higher. But in DC this is the case it is sad. But then we keep voting in that don't seem to do much about it. [/quote]

The middle class middle students are concentrated at one middle school in the city. This leaves a very small amount of kids sprinkled at Hardy, SH, and charters. The remaining students are in deep poverty and don’t have adequate support and facing things at home that you can’t even imagine. If middle schools are 90% at risk are you really blaming the school or city that only 1/3 of those students are at level?[b] You should be advocating for social justice, affordable housing, and jobs before even you can see the impact in the schools.[/b] [/quote]

What does that even mean? How does "social justice" magically turn an uneducated single parent with too many children to support, few basic skills, and (perhaps) a substance abuse problem into a responsible citizen and effective parent? [/quote]

Do you think that uneducated single moms drop from the sky, or do you think that a larger social context plays a role in their development?   For example - if a boy starts getting followed around by store clerks who think he’ll steal stuff and stopped by police (including being held at gunpoint) by the time he’s 12, do you think he’s more or less likely to be a « responsible citizen »?  If a family is only shown apartments in high crime areas (despite their ability to pay the rent elsewhere) do you think they are more or less likely to raise kids who are « responsible citizens »? [/quote]

Actually, I think a major factor in multi-generational poverty is a culture that tolerates or encourages destructive behavior and devalues behaviors that could break the cycle. And I think this is as true in WV "hollows" as it is in blighted urban centers. And "culture" here includes the near-term material and sexual gratification that's beamed at us endlessly in music and video.[/quote]

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