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[quote=Anonymous]Is it possible that disadvantaged children can be successfully educated without a widespread plan for Socio-economic integration?   I think many charter schools have answered that it IS possible.

If DC had the necessary demographics to create schools where disadvantaged students were the minority in every school I would be al for that kind of redistribution.  But we don't have those numbers and we have a hard enough time as it is keeping middle class and educationally focused families in the system.

Posters insistence that people don't give a **** about the poor because they want to avoid high-poverty schools for their own kids is tiresome and non-sensical.  Reserving a number of slots in non-poverty schools is fine. I am all for it.  But given the numbers in DC it is a feel-good measure that will benefit a tiny number of students whose parents have it together enough to enter a lottery.  The charter movement has done a much better job of offering alternatives to failing neighborhood schools and on a much larger scale. [/quote]

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