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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is no proposal to fix because none of us have the ablity to address the SES problem.  Or at least there is insufficient data and political will interms of really how to reverse this dynamic. [/quote]

Time and gentrification.[/quote]

Iow, get rid of the poor (black) people. That helps US but not THEM.  They will still be poor, but they won't be a bother to us any more[/quote]

Of course they will.  But instead of making up 60% of DCPS, they'll make up, say, 20%.  Or 30%.  And the numbers in MoCo, PG County, Alexandria, etc... will all tick up some relatively insubstantial amount.  Which means the well-publicized problems of highly concentrated poverty that DC proper faces will become surmountable.

You do understand that it's *concentrated* poverty that's the problem, right?  Not the teachers.  Not the curriculum.  Not ineffective political leadership.  It's the fact that historically we've made the decision to take all the poorest of the region's poor, segregate them in an isolated political entity with as little political representation as possible, and deny them any means to better themselves.

By seeking to perpetuate this fraud by any means necessary you're just weeping crocodile tears about "the poor (black) people".[/quote]

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