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This debate has been done so many times on here it is not funny.  It is about the families of the kids in a school.  How do you ensure a big enough percentage of kids in a school come to school every day ready to learn from a family that has high expectations?  One way to do that is by neighborhood another way to do that is by creating a school like a charter where families self select through competing for scarce seats and another is the OOB process where it takes a significant family commitment to get your child across town every day.

I have no opposition to mixed housing created by building affordable housing in neighborhoods with currently successful schools.  But the research shows that a school needs to have a certain percentage of prepared kids for all children (high and low SES) to thrive.

I will not apologize for prioritizing my children's educational.  Nobody should have to.  We have some chicken/egg problems to solve but they certainly won't be solved by pretending you can force parents to sacrifice their children's education for the greater good.[/quote]

People always talk about closing the gap by creating schools where the poorest attend with the richest (or the kids from the most educated families).  But I don't see discussed the question of, "At what point do the low performing kids start to bring down the education of the high performing kids?"  What ratio should we be shooting for?  Because if you did things equally across DC (city-wide, location-blind lottery), it seems to me the top schools would go down in quality, the rich people exodus would begin, and the system would enter freefall.  This was the elephant in the room for me in connection with the recent This American Life show, at least in Part 1 in the discussion of Fergusson, MO.  So, I ask sincerely, what does the research show is the ideal percentage of low income students added into a high performing school where those kids benefit but not to the detriment of the high performing kids?  And what's the tipping point where the high performing kids bail and the school becomes worse?  That question needs to be answered to the satisfaction of the liberal parents you hope to sway here.  [/quote]

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