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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]DCPS and DCPCS are primarily for low-income families.[/b]  Low income families tend not to have jobs where you can telecommute.  The schools will stay open so the kids have a place to go, and so they can keep learning.  If a few charters right nearby want to close those days that's up to them.  But most kids go to school fairly close to their homes, even if they don't go to their IB DCPS, and shouldn't have too hard of a time.  If you don't want to take your kid, just get an unexcused absence and have fun at home--no big deal.[/quote]

What in the holy shit are you talking about![/quote]

I laughed out loud at that one! I wonder who they employed to write their post?[/quote]

You can laugh all you want about it, but the people in charge at DCPS and DCPCS see their mission as educating low-income and at-risk students.  If some middle/upper class folks want to enroll in school that's fine, but the system is not set up to cater to them.  Look at curriculum choices, snow days and other scheduling issues, uniforms, attendance policies, etc.

In 2012-3, 4 out of 5 kids in public school here qualified for free or reduced meals: http://www.21csf.org/csf-home/DocUploads/DataShop/DS_355.pdf p.13
The system is just not designed around the needs of the other 20%. [/quote]

Oh for pete's sake. It does not mean 80% of the kids qualify for free lunch. It means 80% of kids attend a school in which 40% or higher gets free lunch. [/quote] Sorry, I meant 40% or higher QUALIFY for free lunch.[/quote]

No.  These stats predate the community eligibility option.  They are literally who qualified for FARMs.

If you don't like those stats, look at http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/local/wp/2015/02/06/at-risk-funding-in-the-district-school-by-school/. 40% of DCPS kids are at-risk (a more stringent definition than FARMs): homeless, in foster care, getting TANF or food stamps, or at least a year behind in high school.  In many (probably most) schools, a majority of the kids are at risk: http://atriskfunds.ourdcschools.org/[/quote]

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