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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]After watching years of hand wringing over the 75%, I think DC should stop laying all responsibility on DCPS and instead implement a systemic effort to reprogram the parenting mores of that 75%.  Ever single bit of public assistance -- from housing to food stamps-- should be coupled to mandatory parenting classes about what it takes to raise children to responsible adulthood and the values that parents need to demonstrate as role models.

No school-- Latin, Basis or KIPP-- can replace decent parenting.   The woeful performance of DCPS students is not a schools problem, it a parenting problem---and not one single DC politician has the guts to say it.

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Some of this is happening. Maybe not enough.

Start by googling home visiting, a national approach. The below links about DC's effort to use it to promote better home life. Mostly through the Dept of Health.

http://doh.dc.gov/service/early-childhood
http://www.learndc.org/earlychildhood/resource/dc-home-visitation-program
http://www.dcfpi.org/home-visiting-programs-make-sense-for-dc
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