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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DC has and is still ignoring the black middle class that fled to PG, Howard & Charles county. They should be actively pursuing these people back into the city. A city with a Large white professional/wealthy class and a majority poor black one is a disaster waiting to happen. The black middle class could even things out in neighborhoods and schools[/quote]

This is so true.  I grew up white and privileged an NWDC and every single one of the POC I knew growing up, were from the middle and upper-middle class that fled to PG, often to old-guard AA neighborhoods like Temple Hills.  The journalist in the first segment (which I listened to three times, because it made me so angry, and made me question every single part of my and my parents' complicity in these problems) asked some very, very good questions about the schools continuing to fail students.

What gets me is why do the schools have to fail to this degree -- 15 years of provisional accreditation or dead pigeons falling through the roof -- before anyone addresses the problems?  I have a friend who left the Philly public schools to teach in the underserved Catholics there (which are nominally better) for her own mental health.  She couldn't serve the children the way she wanted/needed and fight the uphill battle against her administration.

Unfortunately, Kozol's groundbreaking works are STILL valid all these years later.  We should be far more ashamed than we are.  Meanwhile, on this very board we debate whether the exmissions from TJ are more impressive than from Sidwell.  Think about that for a moment.[/quote]

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