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At what point does the community get involved and condemn the [b]violence, sex abuse, drugs, neglect, poor parenting, et cetera[/b]?  The exact opposite is what's out there, these low income kids are plugged into lyrics in fact [b]glorifying all the wrong things - thug life, violence, crime, drugs, misogyny, and irresponsibility.[/b]  They are basically being programmed into a self-perpetuating cycle of all the wrong things.[/quote]

DCPS response has been to make good teachers the sole cure for overcoming the many negative effects of poverty and bad teachers the reason these effects continue.

How has the "community" responded?  Hard to tell. There's complaining about how reform has not worked, but I don't see  parents taking action about it.  In other cities, parents are [b]rising up against standardized testing[/b].  Don't see that happening here.   
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And how exactly does rising up against standardized testing address or improve the horrible, self-defeating social paradigm mentioned above?  If anything, it just perpetuates the status quo rather than lifting anyone up.[/quote]

It's a start -- that other communities that suffer from the effects of poverty have taken.  It says -teach our kids instead of having them regurgitate facts.

Standardized testing in DC has done nothing to lift people up -- the achievement gap has widened since the extreme emphasis on getting the scores up - and the scores aren't up - they are stagnating, rising more slowly than before or going down -- so why continue to tacitly support testing?  Why are engaged parents in DC willing to put up with so much?

I dont know, but as long as they do, you can bet DCPS will take advantage of the complacency.[/quote]

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