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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm not denying generational poverty in Alexandria City Public Schools, a school district with all of 14,500 kids in it. I'm calling out adults for blaming the kids, and labeling them by the color of their skin.[/quote]

I really don't care what you're doing. The problem is the school is dominated by black kids from the projects. If you cannot acknowledge that, you've got a really difficult grasp with reality and have no business "calling out" anyone.

The question was asked, "does anyone send the children to J-H." I assumed, given the context and the audience that OP was addressing upper middle class white people when she asked "does anyone." And the answer, when you strip everything away, is no. "Anyone" does not -- because the school has lots and lots and lots of problems, all of which are directly associated with the culture of poverty associated with being black and from the projects.

Muttering about decisions made 16 years ago is irrelevant. It is what it is. Those projects are there, the school is populated by kids from them, and so, no, "anyone" does not send their kids to J-H. In fact, "anyone" goes to great lengths to AVOID J-H.[/quote]

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