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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Catholic school in my neighborhood outperforms my neighborhood PGCPS by a mile. The high performing Catholic  school received significantly less money per pupil than the public school. Money is not the problem.[/quote]

It is not the schools it is the parents and the kids but nobody will admit that. Poor undereducated parents produce poor undereducated kids the majority of the time. Kids who have checked out but are forced to attend then become distractions and drag down a percentage of the engaged kids. It is a game of satistics and you can influnce the outliers but the core will remain static. The myth of economic mobliity in the country is a drug that makes people underestimate the work needed to leave behind their station in life. The entire system simply is not designed to promote young black kids into elite academics and prepare them to take on leadership posistions in this country. Instead social systems create concentrations of poverty where school systems push testing designed for rich kids on them and then use that to hold back funds form under achieving schools causing a cycle of under performance. The few who beat the odds and excel in the system have to pass through disproportionate policing and a college system that rewards generational wealth and credit as much as grades for admission both which are systems that favor "other" demographics to put it kindly.

Even though it is a bad word around here, gentrification shows the true path to better schools. Two simple things must happen; Eradication of poverty inside the boundaries of said system and a politically and economically involved parent base that does not accept the scraps.

THIS.  All day long.  This.

That said you can either displace the poor people or lift them up but the latter takes generations. And to be politically taken serious you must be affulent to hold an elected officals audience. I see no easy path to this for African American communities who typically get lip service during election years at best.

Truth is PG needs to mobilize and get people elected at the governors level if we ever want to change anything. We could learn from Northern Va on how they turned around and started flexing their political weight with their state politics. If we think we can tax our way out of a social hole we will continue to lose. The tax burden will be another feather in the cap of the anti PG crowd.[/quote][/quote]

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