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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a white, middle-class (lower middle by DCUM standards) parent of two DCPS students and it is obvious to me, and should be obvious to everyone who lives in this city, that the Chancellor's top priority MUST be closing the achievement gap and educating the children who still make up the majority of this district. It turns my stomach to think that most readers of this forum think otherwise--that providing test-in middle school is more important.

I'm not saying that middle schools in DCPS are fine the way they are. I don't want to send my kids to their by-right middle school. But I'm not foolish enough to think that our little problem ought to take attention away from the way more serious issues that face the 75 percent of DCPS students who are poor and have fewer options.[/quote]

Let me guess, PP, you grew up in a high SES family.  If yes, please spare us your bleeding heart before you bleed out.  My own family qualified for food stamps.  I tested in to Boston Latin, after attending a city prep program during evenings and on weekends for two years, and went on to an Ivy.  Middle class flight from urban schools is hardly a little problem; it is among the most serious of problems in the urban educational sphere.  I wouldn't be a lawyer of color making six figures if I hadn't had a great many upper middle-class classmates from a young age.  Make no mistake, test-in middle schools are critically important.  Antwan Wilson's lack of interest in them will be deeply misguided, period.  [/quote]

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