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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You can't say this in liberal areas like DC, but many, many poor people don't give a sh*t about education. We pretend they care every much as doctors in Cleveland Park but it's not true. Some people care and try really hard, and some people don't.  [/quote]

Ok, but a lot do, or they wouldn't send their kids to charters which require more from the families than DCPS does. If you look at DCPS schools where only 20% of the neighborhood kids are going, you're missing a lot of involved parents who are going elsewhere. [/quote]

It's not poor people who are sending their kids to charters. It's highly educated white people who can't afford to buy a home in Ward 3, who consider the neighborhood schools in their non-Ward 3 wards to be unacceptable. [/quote]

It is absolutely poor people. KIPP and DC Prep, just to name a couple of popular LEAs, are not getting highly-educated white people. None of the DCPS neighborhood high schools besides Wilson are getting more than about a quarter of their zoned students, and only a small fraction of those are white kids. You just don't know about the charters that aren't aimed at you. [/quote]

There's obviously a wide range of charters, some good, some bad, but the really good ones are very, very white. [/quote]

NP. This is also inaccurate.  The ones with the fruity philosophies are very, very white (e.g. LAMB), but many of the "really good" ones in terms of test score achievement, e.g. KIPP and DC Prep are 99%+ minority enrollment. [/quote]

This was the case pre COVID, but the last few years hit them really hard. Look at math and KIPP especially. Brutal. Hopefully temporary.

https://www.empowerk12.org/data-dashboard-source/dc-parcc-dash[/quote]

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