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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]DCPS is a district focused primarily on the growth and success of low-income children of color. From leadership down that is the priority, [b]and it should be[/b].[/quote]

Explain to me why a school system should focus primarily upon on one socio-economic and ethnic group. Other jurisdictions like Arlington,  Alexandria, MCPS, and Fairfax somehow seem to manage to care about ALL learners. [/quote]

Because inequality is horrible for society overall, yes even for you.

I'm a European immigrant (but not Anglo) who is disgusted with continuing segregation and imprisonment of a significant portion of the US population. I want my kids to benefit from fair competition where the brightest minds can apply their talents and efforts to better society, not a system that suppresses such talent based on random and inconsequential (to quality) attribute, such as skin color, gender, accent, religion, sexual orientation, to name a few.

Do people really not get it or just pretend not to get it? SMH[/quote]

You are arguing that DCPS should prioritize a single demographic out of equality?!  Huh.[/quote]

You know as well as I do that when DCUM parents say they want “equal treatment” of their demographic, what they really mean is that they demand the right to utterly reshape educational policy and implement pro-white affirmative action in a doomed attempt to attract high SES white families to schools.  When they say they want equality, they DON’T mean - as other groups who have made that demand have meant — that they want an end to discriminatory or abusive policies.  What they want is that the schools be reshaped in a way that pleases them (tracking, gifted programs, suspensions and expulsions).  And they want all that as a gesture to high SES whites who currently don’t use the schools —- a gesture that history shows will certainly fail as those high SES whites continue to move to be burbs or go private, despite their protestations to the contrary.  [/quote]

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