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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]as a middle-class AA parent i find this thread completely ridiculous. no middle-class black parents in DC? this is because you don't know them or aren't friends with them. just because they don't exist for you doesn't mean that they're not here. i see them among my diverse set of friends in the charters and yes even in DCPS. they're parents like natalie hopkinson, who was just in the NYT with this commentary on school choice.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/05/opinion/why-school-choice-fails.html?scp=1&sq=natalie%20hopkinson&st=cse

among AA parents the discussion is about class, not race. if you took out color, many of the lowest-achieving students are low-income. that's why so many charters like KIPP, DC Prep and Achievement Prep Academy started--they wanted to get rid of the low-income factor as an automatic barrier to achievement.[/quote]

As an aside, Natalie made a real fool of herself with this op Ed.   Ok Natalie, lets close all the Charters, you and all your friends will not go to your local school, you will go private or move, neighborhood schools will remain under enrolled, population of dc will plummet again and idiots will remain in charge of DCPS.  It will look just like 1998 again.  Good idea.[/quote]

I completely agree.  She identifies problems with the way it was before and claims that the options available in the current situation do not fix all the problems, so her only suggestion is that we go back to the way it was before.  Terrible logic.  Where is the proposal to actually fix the problem?[/quote]

Poverty is the problem.  So all we need to do is convince the nation at large to triple the amount of money we spend on the poor and radically expanding the social safety net.  Easy peasy!

In other words, there is absolutely nothing we can do, so we won't do anything.[/quote]

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