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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I quit going to the DME events because I found so many of the parent insufferable, overly priveledged and unwilling to consider the complexity of the decision making that needed to be addressed.  I can only imagine what it felt from the decision-maker side. Kaya Henderson has not really had a roll in any of the this decision making but she will be asked to implement it and take all the gripes when it is not perfect because reality intrudes.  Frankly I can't but help that I would also want to say move, it be part of the solution too. [/quote]

To be honest, I found the decision-makers the ones who were unwilling to consider the complexity of the decision making that needed to be addressed.  There was talk of "high quality seats" and of moving high-achieving kids from school to school like a commodity with no understanding whatsoever that the kids in question are people, not seats, and not chips to be pushed around in an attempt to engineer equality.  The fact is that policy has consequences, many of them unintended (like parents pulling their kids out of the system and moving).  The initial unwillingness of the folks leading the process to recognize that their actions would lead to reactions that they had no control over was fairly insufferable.

So here's a question for you: do you believe that DC schools would be better off without the children of all of those overly privileged parents?  Haven't we already tried it that way during the era of white flight?  Isn't that what got us into this mess in the first place?[/quote]

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