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You've just explained in a nutshell why DCPS is going to suck as a school system until gentrification progresses much further than it already has. Unemployment among young people in DC is around 50% because we've pursued policies that ensure the poorest of the region's poor must live in the District. Fortunately that is changing. Hopefully in 5 years from now, unemployment among DC's young people will be around 20%.  And MD's (and VA's) will be similar.

So long as the purpose of all of the District's institutions is to remediate regional poverty, those institutions are going to suck at what they're nominally supposed to be doing.[/quote]

THe purpose of all the government institutions of a city is to address the issues of the people who live in that city -- all of them.   It not the city's job to discourage some of its citizens from living here.[/quote]

I noticed you dodged the point. Do you think a city's DMV should try to provide vehicle services to its residents as best as possible? Or do you think it should maximize employment for otherwise unemployable people?  I'm honestly curious.  Because that's actually a decision we made back in the 90s.

Do you think a school system should focus on educating children? Or on righting all the wrongs of society? People often point to the per pupil spending in DCPS as evidence of its wastefulness. But that's not really fair when in reality it's both a shitty school system and a shitty social services system.

When you say, "It's not the city's job to discourage some of its citizens from living there" I find it both touchingly naive but also very circular. The mayor's "task force" on affordable housing recently declared that their goal was simple: "Our vision is simple and aspirational: The District of Columbia is a city that provides housing that is affordable for all who wish to live and work here" (http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/housingcomplex/2013/03/12/gray-task-force-unveil-proposals-for-affordable-housing/)

While that's very nice and all, it's also a brain-dead recipe for cornering the market on every poor person in the mid-Atlantic region, and ensuring that the suburbs thrive as we deal with any and all of their social issues.[/quote]

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