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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you believe that systemic racism should be dismantled and that Black Lives Matter then your school choices should reflect those values. It's not complicated. [/quote]

Sorry but I don't believe sending my child into the void of incompetence is dismantling racism.  If anything, it's propping up a school system that itself fundamentally racist in addition to being incompetent.  When the adults in charge of DCPS learn to manage a school effecticely, then we can talk.  The option of charter middle schools is the only reason people are willing to live EOTP at all.[/quote]

There is actually a lot of good data out there that suggests otherwise. You might find this book, which goes through a comprehensive economic study on segregation helpful:  "Children of the Dream: Why School Integration Works" by Dr. Rucker Johnson.  https://gspp.berkeley.edu/research/selected-publications/children-of-the-dream-why-school-integration-works [/quote]

I am aware of that research.  I poured 3 years of my life into quality improvements at our EOTP Title I.  But children grow faster than schools.  And the leadership and staff at this school was so profoundly incompetent that eventually I just gave up.  Keeping a calendar, basic communications, even writing a coherent newsletter seemed to be beyond them.  Everything was last-minute, chaotic, under-planned, and teacher turnover was sky-high.  DCPS has a lot of crap admin staff and crap principals.  Nothing will change unless people get real about this.[/quote]

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