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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ridiculous that DCPS has only one mediocre/acceptable comprehensive HS. DCPS has clearly given up on its high schools. Why would they have started two new early college high schools last year instead of Investing the money into existing high schools. Almost all the high schools are underenrolled. Why did we need new ones? Ron Brown was opened with great fanfare and it has also been a mess and their star principal is quietly exiting [/quote]

+1 Money doesn’t solve everything. There was a long thread on this. You could build high schools that look like Taj Mahals (and DCPS did), change the names (FCPS did), lie about attendance/dropout records, etc and the schools’s performance won’t change. [b]It’s not about race.[/b] It’s about students whose families are connected to their kids’ educations. That is why WOTP schools do well. [/quote]

It's about class, and I don't know how you begin to separate race from class in this particularly city, where almost all the white kids in DC public schools are from UMC families, the great majority of the AA kids aren't, and the housing stock has never really desegregated.  Moreover, UMC AA students don't perform quite as well as UMC white kids on standardized tests, mainly because most middle-class AA families are newer to the middle-class than whites.  We can all pretend that the achievement gap has nothing to do with race, but, very sadly, that's not true.

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Minority DCPS Parent EotP (with children in a school that's whiter than several WOTP)[/quote]

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