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"Good schools" is usually just code for "schools with fewer poor students."  I think DC should provide advanced classes for advanced students, in whatever numbers they exist at a particular school.  If you have that, I don't know what really makes a "good" school other than not having poor kids dragging down your test scores.[/quote]

This is a misinformed statement. Can we stop with the stereotypes? There are plenty of “good students” (academically gifted) who are “poor” (parents don’t have money). And there are wealthy students who are not good students.

What do you say about kids with learning disabilities? Do they create “bad schools?”

It’s faulty logic. Some students need more supports than others. Generalizing does nothing to help people. It only hurts (you included). [/quote]

I think you are misinterpreting what I wrote (or I expressed it poorly). I was making the point that when people talk about good schools and bad schools they are usually largely relying on metrics like test scores which are much more tightly correlated with socioeconomic status and parents’ education than they are with anything about the school. Many people opt out of perfectly good schools they deem “bad” because of low tests or other indicia that mostly come down to an “undesirable” student population. Frankly I think a lot of DC charter families fall into this trap. [/quote]

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