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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does it matter? A smaller school system would be easier to manage, good riddance. 
We already have a shortage of space and teachers. [/quote]

If there are fewer kids, it will be because many of their families are leaving the city -- shrinking our local tax base and the funding available for education. It's also likely that those left behind will require more resources.

I frankly don't believe that there are 20,000 kids missing but I do believe there are thousands of families who had trouble navigating the enrollment process. I'm at a Title 1 school that is overenrolled and has a waiting list. The school staff walked families through registration and offered to do masked home visits if needed. [/quote]

Yea...do you really think that will put a dent in anything? DC has an large amount of wealthy people living here, I don’t worry about funding. I worry about how it’s allocated and being used. We have one of the highest per pupil spending in the country.

I also work at an over crowded title one school, so crowded we had to turn a closet into a resource room...
DC should spend money on making sure every school has a great environment and excellent teacher training.

And instead of just giving poorer families a place to live, require them by law to learn about how to manage money, and some free schooling towards a job they’d like to do.

The problem with DCPS isn’t how much we spend on students it’s the fact that we don’t want to look at their home environment even though we know some of them are really bad and sometimes it’s not at the fault of parents. [/quote]

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