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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]people ask why these large pockets of kids are doing so poorly and I am sure there are some deep and systematic reasons why. But I can't help help but see it as simply this school has a large pocket of kids who will never catch up and are divesting from education. Then that school will consolidate it's large pocket of kids with the other incredibly high FARMS schools in that cluster into a even higher concentration at middle school level which will only get worse at the high school level as those kids start to get into real trouble.

who cares why they are doing so bad, why not just pay a little bit more for one's house and find a school without huge pockets of bad students? Honest question[/quote]

Personally I am looking for what may be a black unicorn, so to speak--a school with a diverse population in addition to good test scores. I don't want my kid to be an "only" who feels like an outsider in their school community. I also don't want to have to live miles and miles away from downtown DC where I work. I have to say, if I were white, maybe this wouldn't be an issue for me at all. I'm a little envious of people who can plop their kid into a "rich" school in a "good" neighborhood and not have to worry about them being different from the rest of the student population.[/quote]

So much of this comes down to administrators and the culture they create in a school. Do they affirmatively recruit and retain teachers of color? Do they affirmatively recruit and retain MALE teachers of color? Do they create a culture in which excellence is expected of all kids? Do they create a culture in which cultural differences are respected, and where parents coming from various cultures feel the school is open to them (linguistically, logistically, culturally)? Do they push back firmly on (middle class white) parents who advocate for policies that will disproportionately advantage their own kids?

This is hard stuff and I think a lot of administrators fail at it. [/quote]

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