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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][size=18]IMO the failing of DCPS is a class issue.   Lower income families have suffered through DC's mediocre/ failing school nightmare for years.  Those with higher incomes that could afford to leave the city did.  Those with HHIs that could secure a home in a neighborhood with a well performing schools  did.  Those stuck in the middle fought for vouchers and charters or sent their kids OOB to JKLMM schools.  The uptick in revitalization that DC has seen in the past decade has seen people move into neighborhoods that have been less than desirable for quite some time and we all know that the trend for many years was to move out of the city when you started a family.  Seems like folks have started to give the middle finger to that plan and are demanding functioning neighborhood schools, where they pay taxes (imagine that  :lol:). In my poor working student days I can remember being priced out of many neighborhoods that were deemed "the new hotness".  It may have been okay for a 20 something single gal but I could have never imagined sending a child to the schools I walked past daily.   While I see the value in urban revitalization I think we need to have equal parts of persistence and patience.  Many neighborhoods have been devoid of adequate city services for many years and the infrastructure has not seemed to catch up with the cache.  If neighborhood X has been on the rise for 10 yrs but teeming with young professionals/ singles, few families and the retired old guard, who has been around long enough to truly advocate for change and see it to the finish?  Especially if everyone tucks tail and runs before middle school.  I truly understand the fear of allowing your child to receive a substandard education or risking exposure to children of households with starkly different value systems.  The DCPS situation makes me feel like we're on the New Frontier of education. A great deal of us want something new/ better in terms of education but we're in very unfamiliar territory trying to figure this thing out.    [/size][/quote]

:shock: so sorry that the font is so large  :oops:  I increased the font for my aging eyes as I typed and did not change it back before posting.  :)[/quote]

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