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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Walls is our only hope. Otherwise we will have to move and I don’t know if we’d end up in NW DC or MD. Hate this system overall. [/quote]

What system? Dcps, the lottery, living in a city where a huge percentage of kids come from generations of poverty?[/quote]

People here are very scared of the generations of poverty and don’t want their precious children to be anywhere near it. Very sad when people think they are better than others.[/quote]

I guess I'm just be of the people who is afraid if generational poverty, but it's not because I think I'm better than anyone. It's because I come from generational poverty (as well as violence, abuse, mental health issues, and substance abuse) and my biggest fear is that can't successfully keepy family lifted out of that situation.

I feel like if I had generational wealth or a family network of stable, supportive people to help me raise my kids, I'd feel less stressed about all this. But I'm on my own (with my spouse, from a similar background) and I want a school community that is going to reinforce the values of education, hard work, emotional maturity, and personal accountability. I think that can be hard to find at a high poverty school.[/quote]

My family doesn’t come from poverty but I am not so privileged as to believe “my kid will be fine anywhere!” It also takes a weird set of beliefs to not see that a school with concentrated poverty won’t be significantly disadvantaged. I can’t put my finger on it but it is as if people believe their kids are so special that education actually doesn’t matter. [/quote] It does feel terrible that we work so hard to segregate ourselves. Either you move to avoid the at-risk kids, you lottery to avoid the at-risk kids, you perform/lottery to avoid the at-risk kids (Walls, etc.), or you buy a spot in private to avoid the at-risk kids.  But at the end of the day there is no shame in wanting a "school community that is going to reinforce the values of education, hard work, emotional maturity, and personal accountability."  Can't argue against those goals. [/quote]

Well I actually think the at risk kids and families often value education, maturity and accountability. There’s no moral judgment on my part. I think that because they are poor they get access to worse services. Just like I wouldn’t buy a house in a dangerous part of w7 or 8 and assume it would have the top access to services and safety and amenities. That’s what it means to be marginalized. Also my kid doesn’t have better values than his current at risk classmates but I can afford to put him in a school where his individual values don’t matter. [/quote]

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