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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote What people are reacting against is [b]some sort of policy level decision[/b] to make sure that middle class families are evenly distributed around schools and not allowed to cluster in certain schools--as if THAT is the way to fix inequities. To me it seems like a final refuge of a city educational bureaucracy who is out of ideas.[/quote]

I've been reading a lot on this forum thanks to the snow.  I'm not seeing a link to any official proposal to evenly distribute families.  I ask in all seriousness, where is that coming from?

From what I can tell, it's hysteria that's grown out of some op-ed or blog post from someone not even employed by DCPS.[/quote]

The suggestion has been that these op-eds were from folks who have served as school consultants and who carry some weight with DCPS.  The pushback is in pointing to the actual research and statistics, which shows that simply pushing families out to schools with more disadvantaged students is absolutely not going to work given DC's numbers, and will quite likely cause more harm - and serious harm, and not provide any meaningful benefit to anyone.  What may look good to someone on paper could be an utter disaster in practice.  If they want to talk boundaries, planning and policy, they will need to dig a lot deeper.[/quote]

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