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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]what did the wealthy parents at Jackson-Reed do that "made it better?"[/quote]

Didn't pull out their well prepared kid?  Demanded appropriate classes?[/quote]

This is "made it better?"[/quote]

I mean... yes. How do you think the majority of schools in DC improved? There's a cycle of buy in leading to more buy in leading to better offerings and more parental funding leading to more buy in leading to higher expectations leading to, etc, etc. Like yes, I genuinely believe that gentrification in DC has improved schools.[/quote]

Sure, if your unit of measure is the building and not the humans inside the building.  [b]The  kids who previously attended those schools are now priced out of the neighborhood, [/b]and they are being poor and having achievement issues somewhere else.  But DCUM doesn’t seem to care about that. [/quote]

Can you say more about what this means? Unless they were in rentals before they weren't priced out of somewhere they did not live. If what you are suggesting is that they lived OOB and because the IB population started sending their kids there, that's not "being priced out" and in fact that's what the IB preference policy design was design to achieve - neighborhood schools.

So I'm asking seriously, what does the bolded section above mean?[/quote]

I’m the PP and I really don’t understand this question.  PP posted explicit literal praise of gentrification.  Do you not know that that word means?   It’s the process of a neighborhood that was previously poor and usually minority becoming middle class and then sometimes upper middle class or wealthy.  Real estate prices go up, taxes go up as comps increase and rents go way up.  I live in Adams Morgan.  Twenty five years ago, this was a largely Latine neighborhood.  Now, a condo is $1.1 mil and rents have risen accordingly.  The extremely desirable in boundary immersion school that used to be able to fill 50% of its Spanish dominant slots with meighborhood kids can’t anymore because those families have been priced out.  That’s gentrification.  What is not clear?[/quote]

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