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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are many problems with this magical thinking of the solution being to simply get more high-SES students into those schools.  A.) high-SES families do not want to put their children in those schools because of uncontrolled bad behavior and social problems, B.) high-SES families do not want to put their children in those schools because of perceived failings in classroom management, teaching methods, and problems with how they are run - given these schools' poor performance overall, and C.) even if high-SES students did start attending, it wouldn't magically transform the problems with the teachers, administration and the rest of the student body..[/quote]

It has nothing to do with "magical thinking."  In 10-20 years, high-SES families won't have a problem putting their kids in DCPS schools because there just won't be that many low-SES children in the city. The affordable housing programs in DC are pretty much a fig-leaf. We're eliminating affordable housing at a remarkable clip. There won't be a "rest of the student body".

The bloviating about "classroom management" and "teaching methods", etc... are just mistaking the causes for the symptoms. Those are problems *because* we have a failing public school system. We have a failing public school system because 80% of the students come from deep poverty.  End of story.[/quote]

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