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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The school is there to educate the neighborhood kids, their collective affluence as an affront to DCPS notwithstanding.  This city uses public schools primarily to promote social justice, with meeting the needs of the kids who live in a particular school district as an ancillay function.  The arrangement is tantamount to the US military putting the welfare aspects of its work (providing jobs and training to soldiers) over defense.

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It is not DCPS' responsibility to provide neighborhood schools. It is DCPS' responsibility to educate all the children residing in the District. It is not clear to everyone (definitely not to me) that neighborhood schools are the best way to achieve that.

It seems to me the whole concept of neighborhood schools is awfully appealing to those in more affluent neighborhoods, and loses its appeal as the affluence of a neighborhood declines. It's all very well to live IB for LT *now* and beat the drum for neighborhood schools, but 20 years ago you might've been singing a different tune.

I'm a homeowner IB for Payne, and I don't get involved in Payne discussions on DCUM or hassle the Payne principal about getting her school up to speed, because (regardless of whatever effect it may have on my home values) my kid is not at Payne. I'm certainly not going to hold up my high-SES kid as some kind of prize the principal could win if she made changes at her school. [/quote]

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