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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Right now DCPS is spending tens of millions on school modernizations for high schools like Dunbar and Cardozo and Woodson and Coolidge and the grade level percentiles are still in the 30th percent range. . . [/quote]

And?  The students who attend there are largely coming from poor families.  Did you expect that a new school building was all that was needed to fix the issues associated with poverty?  Would you prefer to warehouse poor students in a crappy building?
I'd rather spend our DC money on buildings that my less fortunate DC neighbors use than on buildings that MD / VA people use.  Now if MD & VA want to renovate Ellington, I'd be fine with that.[/quote]

Jesus, I feel like I'm on crazy pills here.

Other PP writes that it's crazy to create magnet schools where there's an actual socioeconomic mix. We should just create nice buildings and pack them full of uniformly high-poverty student bodies. Then someone points out that we've done this, over and over again. The schools fall to shit, and the student outcomes remain in the basement.

Now along comes PP here to ask, "Did you expect that a new school building was all that was needed?"

Oh, and why were they trying to entice middle-class kids to these schools in CT? They just should've erected the nice new school buildings and filled them with poor people. Why try to cater to middle class students? They already get the good stuff, anyway.

Sorry, but "KIPP-fan PP" aside, the reason school districts are so desparate to leverage integration is that it's the only thing that's been shown to work for general population of high-poverty kids (as opposed to the limited subset of KIPP kids whose parents are poor but incredibly motivated).[/quote]

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