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The problem is poverty. If it weren't poverty, we would see the middle and upper income DCPS schools struggling just as much as the low income schools, and we don't. Sure, there is more than can be done, but the root of the problem is not incompetence. [/quote]

Poverty has an impact but I say that lousy curricula choices that do [b]not[/b] emphasize practice nor mastery of the 4 math operations, fractions percents, and decimals and that do [b]not[/b] teach phonics adequately or content adequately have a greater impact!! Then, disruptive students are not dealt with properly and are allowed to disrupt to the detriment of all.[/quote]

I always get a mordant chuckle out of the folks who--in the face of a hundred years of evidence, and in a school district where the childhood poverty rate is 30%--desperately cling to the idea that, if only DCPS would transition to some magical curriculum that only they are privvy to, we'd suddenly have the same educational outcomes as Loudon County.

Fucking idiocy.[/quote]

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