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[quote=Anonymous]I think the problem some public schools in DC are facing is the same the city as a whole is facing. The "new normal" is a middle-class school in a middle-class neighborhood. That's what parents of newly school-age children expect to see walking through the door of any school. Besides the fact that 'seeing' comes with many distortions caused by erroneous causal assumptions about race and class, the reality is that most DCPS are urban schools, with any classroom running the gamete from from upper middle class families not able or not willing to pay for private school to the occasional (often more than one) child raised by relatives and/or whose parents are in jail (not so unusual and surprising btw given that about a third of all prisoners worldwide are incarcerated in the US, mostly in Texas, California, and DC). 
The likes of us, for whom that wasn't the "new normal" and who made a conscious decision and footed the effort to make this work aren't the ones roaming the hallways with preschoolers and Kindergarteners. Yes, some of us are a little PC, playing down problems, but we're also hyper-conscious that an open mind, tolerance, kindness, and active involvement is paramount to our kids' education not only succeeding but turning out to be something truly special, something that will will make them stewards for life, not just educated them in reading and math.[/quote]

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