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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think its important to remember this is about poverty for kids enrolled in PUBLIC SCHOOLS. thats not the same as sayiing 50% of ALL kids in US live in poverty.   I don't know the second number but I would assume its less than 50%. I think part of this number is a reflection of more and more parents putting their kids in private, charter and home school. bascially you are seeing a pheonomenom where parents who do have a choice, choose to leave public schools.  They may also live in poverty but for whatever reason of ability, have pulled their kids out.   This is so different from even when I was a kid in the 80s.  I went to a mix of average to below average public shcools, my family was high income. Everyone we were friends with were upper middle income and we all went to the same public schools. I think parents now are inundated with so much information about how poverty creates a negative learning environment etc that they are trying a hell of lot harder than a generation before to get their kids out of public schools.  To be fair, I am probably one of those parents.   Issues my own parents probably would have ignored, I am overly concerned with.  My parents never could have told you a FARMS rate or free lunch percent at any of my public schools (and my mom was a teacher). But I know that for every single choice we are looking at in D. And its very likely that we will end up in a charter. 
I think this article was important but we need more information on the increase in school age kids who simply no longer in the public school system. I think for both DC and new orleans at least half of all kids are not in public schools. [/quote]

Charter schools are public schools, therefore I would imagine that they are included in the 50% poverty analysis. There are plenty of FARMs children in charter. The charter movement was originally designed with them in mind. [/quote]

I wondered when someone would point this out.  Thank you.

PP's mom probably knew which of her students were on assistance.  She just assumed it was her job to teach them.  Later generations are much more class and SES-conscious, which is why public school systems like DCPS will never see the rebirth some would like to predict.  The same types that blather about walkability will move to Bethesda in a heartbeat or go private rather than send their snowflakes to a high-FARMS school.[/quote]

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