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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Instead of complaining why not take action and volunteer one day a week at your local public school and be a part of the solution? It takes a community to make real changes.[/quote]

I did that, actually. For two years. And I realized things weren't going to get better. So, I took a different course of action. I left. And I'm one of very many who make this decision.

It's a chicken-and-egg thing. PP suggests my suggestions are at odds with each other -- why siphon off the best math students to TJ, e.g. The answer is you start doing some of these things you make school system overall a more attractive option to families who currently send their high achieving students elsewhere or move out of the district because of the school. Mort Sherman has made it plain that he has no interest in marketing the school system to the upper middle class white families in the system who choose to go elsewhere -- he doesn't want to try to compete with privates, he's said. I think that's a mistake. If you attract a better balance of abilities, you go a long way to fixing the problem. Making TJ not even an option is a turnoff to some families -- but if it's there, you might attract 10 families who hold out hope their kid might be admitted, even if only 1 or 2 actually make it. So, it's a leadership problem too.

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