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Yes- personal accountability.  Don't have kids out of wedlock. Go to college (there's plenty of aid available for poor students). Don't go to jail. Let's start there.  I'm aware of the achievement gap. I guarantee you though that the kids on the lower achievement scale are growing up in households where their parents or parent is in one of those 3 predicaments above (had kid out of wedlock, didn't go to college, one parent is in jail).[/quote]

People Should Behave Like I Think They Should is not a policy, it's a desire. (A desire very commonly expressed on DCUM.) What [i]policies[/i] do you support?

Also, what should kids do who were unfortunate enough to be born to unmarried parents who didn't go to college and/or did go to jail?[/quote]

Do you think that the schools can come up with an overarching solution that will close the achievement gap entirely? The solution starts at HOME. How does that get implemented or fixed is the biggest question but to think that  it's the responsibility of the schools to fix it is naive thinking.  [/quote]

Nobody has said on this thread that school policies can fix it all.

The question is, what policies CAN fix it? So far the responses have been:

-people should be personally responsible (a wish, not a policy)
-schools can't (an answer, but to a different question)
-kids of immigrants do better (an observation, not a policy)[/quote]

+1.  Some people on this thread are convinced that this pilot is a bad idea.  Except no one has shown data to support that.  And no one articulate what would work better.[/quote]

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