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[quote=Anonymous][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]

So much focus and fear on redistribution.  That's what's tiresome and nonsensical.

The charter movement IS redistribution.  Can we get off of that and look at how to bring the element of quality instruction to DCPS? Please don't come back with "reduce the number of disadvantaged kids."[/quote]

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