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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here's a crazy idea - properly resource all of the schools, including academic offerings, facilities, supports, etc.  so parents aren't playing Hunger games over available "good" schools.  Everyone knows the affluent schools get more system support in addition to self-funding whatever else they want to have a "public plus" school.[/quote]

This is simply wrong. The affluent schools get fewer resources. You need to rethink your understanding of the problem.[/quote]

PP who just posted the same thing here. Do you honestly think that if you put the bottom 10% of DCPS kids into Janney they would suddenly improve?? NO.  My kids go to this school.  I will tell you that it has all the ups and downs of being in a large public school, and if your child has all the challenges of being poor they are not going to suddenly thrive at Janney.  Janney and the other high performing ES in DCPS do well because of the high SES cohort and family support the kids have -- I promise there is nothing special about being in those 4 walls.

Lafayette until the renovation was in a horribly dumpy building, with no walls (open classroom), rats, etc.  Parents uniformly said that being in trailer city was a VAST improvement over the building.  Yet, you had people like FENTY gaming the system to get their kids in.  (Same can be said for Murch, pre renovation).  This has nothing to do with the facilities.[/quote]

and yet those schools had no trouble getting to the front of the line for modernization funding unlike other schools with less connected parents.  Aside from Eaton, every non-modernized school in the pipeline serves a largely low income/at risk community.[/quote]

Murch waited in line for a renovation of its decrepit building for nearly 20 years. In fact, it got pushed to the BACK of the line, repeatedly, to the point where it became borderline dangerous for kids to go to school there.

But don't let the facts get in the way of your screed.[/quote]

Only on DCUM could you take a legitimate, documented case of corruption by school officials and turn it into an argument about WOTP schools not getting enough resources and who should have gotten modernized when ... I'm not mad I'm impressed
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