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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Until parents organize to vote out city council members and DC mayors who could care less if by-right middle and high schools mostly serve neighborhood families, nothing will change much.

Covid will only make the process harder.[/quote]

Your words make no sense (except to vent on DCUM). The idea of by-right schools (read: inbound preference) is to give parents the opportunity to choose that school. All of those OOB kids are there precisely because IB kids aren't; it is necessarily a zero sum game. There's also an equity problem of tracking kids too early and deploying resources disproportionately to high performers. Should advanced classes have a 14:1 ratio while regular classes are at 35:1? How early is too early to decide a kid is "advanced" vs had a two parent household of graduate and post-graduate educated parents, books, food stable, etc.? If a kid had no advantages should we warehouse them in 7th grade? 6th? 10th?

These are really hard questions and issues. The answers aren't easy and every action has an impact elsewhere. I'm white and rich. I grew up white and rich wanting for nothing. My kids have had every possible advantage. Part of me wanted them in honors classes and doing advanced work in 2nd grade. Part of me doesn't' want them in a classroom with disruptive kids or anyone not at their grade level. But then I remember that I live in DC and send my kids to school here in order for them to have a diverse education and experiences and to interact with people not like them. [b]So I struggle with all of this. [/b]

"We should vote them all out" doesn't actually make any sense in this context.   [/quote]

[b]I struggle with nothing [/b]and I'm not white.  Good schools first, diversity second.[/quote]

Shocker! Absolute certainty is clearly a sign of a genius at work.

Also, we had for decades in this country and is got us  huge education, wage and achievement gap. Some people were OK with that. Some not so much. I guess I know where you come out on that. You're ok if 99% of advanced classes and test-in schools are UMC and white. I'm not.[/quote]

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