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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I feel conflicted about this.  I guess it boils down to whether you think school choice is good or whether it hurt neighborhood schools.  The easier it is to go to a "better" school across town the less incentive their is to invest in your community.  I know I wouldn't send my kids to many of the schools in Wards 7 & 8 so I don't blame those families for looking for other options.  But how will those schools improve and attract more families if everyone bails.  Its complicated.   [/quote]

I love this white savior here.

It’s not just that black people and brown people are supposed to survive in a climate of racial prejudice, it’s also our job to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps and improve failing schools as well. [/quote]

The best elementary school in DC is Janney, in Ward 3.  Ever given any thought as to why?  Parental involvement.  Parental involvement with the school, with DCPS, with their community AND WITH THEIR CHILDREN.  Doesn't matter who you are, parental involvement - on multiple levels - is required for a school to be successful. You need a sizeable group of parents prioritizing education in their family and their community in order to make a school successful.  Janney hasn't always been high performing and it hasn't always been crowded.  Same with Deal and Wilson, which, not surprisingly, are the middle and high schools for Janney kids. Again, none of those 3 schools would be worth a damn without the parents involved in that school.  That's what the PP is talking about.  And, frankly, any parent in Ward 3 would understand exactly what PP was getting at with her comment. Parents investing in their neighborhood schools, community and their kids is the (not so) secret sauce.    Not sure what racial prejudice has to do with anything and, in particular, why it would prevent you from reading to your children from the day they are born, filling your house with books, never buying them an electronic device, and taking them to the library and free Smithsonian museums whenever you have time to spend together.
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Wow. Fwiw if kids had even a small chance of turning into [b]this kind of racist monster[/b], Janney sucks. Also I find Janney to be unimpressive but I guess I have high standards. [/quote]

How do you see this as a racial issue?  Just curious.[/quote]

Because this poster is stating that low achievement schools, largely in black areas of the city, are low achieving due to poor parenting. [/quote]

[b]Your argument appears to be that any criticism of an area that is largely Black is racist. [/b] Is that correct?  If so, I'm afraid I don't see the connection.  If we were to follow your logic then it would never be possible to criticize people or neighborhoods that are Black.  Surely that's not what you are suggesting are you?  Black people and Black communities are humans, too.  Yes, institutional racism is a part of the Black experience in this country but surely you aren't suggesting that they are incapable of making bad decisions for reasons unrelated to their race?[/quote]

DP but that's not the argument being made at all.  It's clearly the argument you'd love to respond to, but fourteen leading questions don't make it so.

OP stated that Janney is the best school in the city (citation needed) and that the reason it is the best has nothing to do with parental wealth, only parental [i]involvement [/i](again, uncited assertion).  Then she extrapolated from her baseless assertions that parents at other, presumably "bad" schools in the city are not involved parents, don't read to their kids, and use electronics to ignore them.

Then she said "why is everyone saying parental involvement doesn't matter????"  This is not a good faith argument, and never was.  This is an idiot (based on grammar and spelling at least) who thinks her husband's salary makes her a better parent than people who live in bounds for different schools.  It would be embarrassing if she could even see what she was saying, but she only wants to hear herself talk, not listen.[/quote]

Interesting.  Instead of answering the question, you change the subject and resort to insults.  That's, um, a great way to convince people you know what you are talking about.  Moving along now .....[/quote]

Different poster-  I don’t think your mom did a great job with you. Your clear bias against those who struggle with generational poverty is pretty gross. Furthermore, you sound profoundly and deeply ignorant. Moreover, Janney is neither the best school in school (by far) nor does it have the most parental involvement. [/quote]

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