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[quote=Anonymous]I agree with about every subpoint made in 12:26's opus.

But I disagree with the assumed premise:  that "we" should undertake efforts to amend, upend and blow up the current system with the primary goal of making schools better for poor kids in DC.

12:26 uses the words "underserved" and "poorly served" repeatedly --- as though we all agree that it's just the poor who are the ones being screwed **specifically by DCPS*** (and not society and their own birth families).

We, the taxpayers of DC, don't all agree that that's our most important goal.

It's one goal, sure, but for my family and many others like ours, OUR top goal is to make DCPS better for OUR underserved kids.  The pressing educational needs of OUR underserved kids in almost no respect resemble the needs of  say, ward 7 and 8's underserved kids.

In fact, they are directly competing needs.  A solution that improves the educational outcome of one group may well diminish the prospects of the other group of kids.

DCPS does an abysmal job with our subset of children already. The notion that they should be screwed even further by taking away what little they have so that "the worst schools" get some of our magic ingredients is tiresome social engineering from 1968 Berkeley. 
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