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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hilarious. Self-segregation is the ultimate goal of just about every parent in DC area. People pay insane amounts for housing and spend hours each day commuting to their jobs so that their kids can go to segregated schools.  And when they succeed, someone writes an article denouncing it?  Where does the author live? In Anacostia? Or does he simply avoid the issue by sending his kids to St.Albans? [/quote]

I agree, totally agree.

This is an interesting piece:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/04/14/_.html

[i]"You can call a facility "public" all you like, but if the only way to gain access to it is to first buy your way into an expensive neighborhood then there's nothing public about it."[/i]
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Well, but some would say that it's not the school people are paying all of that money for.  They pay to be in an area surrounded by other people -- and other kids -- with money.  So that it's not that their kid goes to a school with better facilities and teachers; it's that their kids go to a school surrounded by better students, and that's what makes the difference.   Most schools are rated by the performance of the students.  Are the students performing so much better at the schools in wealthier neighborhoods because those schools have better teachers or is it that those wealthier neighborhoods and, therefore, the schools attract families with better students.  It's an important question, and I don't know the answer.  I think people are afraid to ask it, because it might mean that the answer to improving student achievement in low-performing schools isn't just going to be improving the actual school.[/quote]

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