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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Agreed but in DC race and low income has historically led to low academic standards and poor behavior.  Parents who want better get in OOB, charter, or move out so you have schools with deep issues that can't be fixed with token middle class students.  BTDT.  Your children shouldn't be guinea pigs or pawns.

[quote=Anonymous]For me it has never been how many XX. It's about academic accomplishment and behavior. [/quote][/quote]

Thinking of children as "guinea pigs or pawns" is only one way of looking at it.  The other way to look at it is demanding social change - demanding an end to extreme racial and economic segregation in DC.  This is part of American history, and particularly the history of equality in education.  It takes a few families or people so dedicated to wanting change that they take the first steps.  Now, though, many people could seemingly care less about the community at large or social issues of equality and fairness, and just chalk it up to wanting what's best for their children.  [/quote]
Shame on parents advocating for their children.  Shame!  Shame![/quote]

Is it not possible to advocate for your children and your community at the same time?  In a school system with so much choice it is not necessary to take the harder road of trying to advocate for both, that is definitely true.  Too bad for the poor and disadvantaged - all these choices were supposedly meant to help them, yet from reading these posts it seems like it just gives more advantaged families more opportunities to turn a blind eye to society's problems without actually having to move to a new community.[/quote]

I have an idea, why don't you identify a bunch of middle class families and convince them to send their kids to the most struggling schools in DC - start with Garfield ES where 6% of the kids are proficient in math (less than 1 in 16 is proficient).

Tell the group they can't send their kids to a school with 40% proficient, that would be perpetuating injustice.  Same thing with a school at 15% proficient - how could one deal with the guilt of enrolling their child at a school where 1 out of 6 kids is proficient?

Then get back to us on how that all worked out.[/quote]

No, that sounds like too much work.  Instead, I think we should just make the poor kids practice math and reading all day until their test scores up and the middle class families feel comfortable sending their kids to these schools. If, after all the practice, the test scores still do not go up, we should just blame the teachers.  Whatever we do, we should not ask the community to help until the problem is already fixed.[/quote]

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