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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]

You're missing it - the reason it's totally reasonable to assume people don't give a shit about disadvantaged students is, most people's arguments against any proposals like this is "But that would negatively impact my kid.  So no." and that's it.  It is WHOLLY reasonable to assume that every post that ends htere is because the person doesn't really care that this is a conversation about trying to figure out how to effectively educate those who have been most left behind academically, since (lack of gifted programs notwithstanding) DC does a decent job of educating everyone else.

So no, not tiresome or non-sensical, unless at the same time that someone says "No, this would be bad for us" they also say "How about this idea instead?"  You only show you give a shit if you actually acknowledge it's important and participate in trying to think of other solutions.[/quote]

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