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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is exhausting. Parents are to blame because they wrongly believe that anything new and shiny means the school is better. So they bitch non stop for new facilities and wow, the test scores still suck. You can renovate Cardozo, rebuild Dunbar and build a new brook land middle...guess what the test scores are abysmal, high SES parents won't send their kids there but yet everyone whines to spend more money or more new buildings.[/quote]

I don't believe it will change test scores. But I'd like my kids (and ALL other kid in the city) to have decent facility because DECENCY.

How's that for a reason?

Or do you think poorly performing kids /schools should just be left in squalor?[/quote]

So true about 'new and shiny'.  DCPS needs to pragmatically address deficiencies rather than creating shrines.  There are too many instance of extremes between modernized facilities like Dunbar and largely neglected facilities like Orr.  The process needs to be data driven and not influenced by politics as it's been done to date.  Independent auditors need to watch the process and most importantly the dough (Ellington is an affront to taxpayers above all).  Planning needs to be equitable between schools serving the full public education spectrum.[/quote]

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