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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why not fix the schools in your own Ward/district?[/quote]

This just pisses me off.  You are either in your late 20s or just moved to DC in the past 5 years.  Right?

As someone who has been leaving here for all my life - let me just say...my mother tried to fix my school and I believe my grandmother tried to fix it before her.  If you would like to come over and try to help...we welcome you.  But don't just chime on from your high horse on something you know nothing about.

Schools here are broken.  And I'm guessing you know nothing about it.
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You know, here is the counter-narrative: You've lived here all your life (or maybe most, with a few years in nearby MD but didn't like it). Your grandmother tried to fix the schools (of course they were segregated at the time, so I'm not sure which schools she was trying to fix) and your mother tried to fix the schools. And then you came along and sure enough threatened to try as well. Except that now there were so many of you, and a few others in addition and some more to come, that it actually looked like it was going to do work. So the Republicans (and let's just throw in the whole private school lobby and maybe a chunk of the charter school lobby along) got really scared and had to find a new way to keep you from finally succeeding. So they called whole rest of it "broken", invented some labels to make sure you better believe it (look up the word "proficient").
Go right ahead and buy into it. But think into what you're buying.[/quote]

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