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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]DCPS made the crappy schools. Parents didn't. [/quote]
I disagree with this point. Maybe there are things DCPS should do that it hasn't, but it does not carry all the blame. An at least equal share of blame belongs to families who abandoned their neighborhood schools. Some of that is just the ebb and flow of families moving around, which isn't DCPS fault and is really out of DCPS control. Some of that is to private schools, which is also unavoidable. Some is to charters, which offer many positives but have the side effect of draining off many good families from DCPS. Some is via families shifting to schools OOB from their neighborhoods under the idea of "choice."

And you can see a lot of this playing out in the current boundary discussion, where some people are threatening to abandon DCPS if they don't get the the particular school they want. I can empathize with their desire to avoid the risk and hard work that comes with building a school, so I wouldn't put all the blame on those families either. We seem to be stuck in a difficult spiral, and breaking it will require hard choices. [/quote]

You are confusing cause and effect.  Most of the people who "abandoned" their neighborhood schools did so out of frustration with DCPS, given DCPS isn't addressing the many issues with kids not getting the appropriate level of early remediation they need get back on grade level (which ends up holding the other students back) along with not appropriately addressing the rampant problems with behavior and disruption on classrooms (which likewise ends up holding the other students back).  There are many things which should be in DCPS's control - but DCPS has not been adequately stepping up to the plate to deal with them.[/quote]

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