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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maybe all of you should actually send your kids to your neighborhood public schools and then invest the time and effort to make those schools better rather than undermining that effort and adding to traffic congestion and global warming by racing all over town?

There is a good reason some people hate gentrifiers - if Shaw is good enough to live in it should be good enough for your kids to go to school with the children of color of long time residents.[/quote]

First of all, many parents do this.

Secondly, what magical skills do you think we white policy analysts and non profit employees have to make our neighborhood schools better?  The idea that parents putting in the time to be involved is what turns a school around is magical thinking.[/quote]

+1.  Parents do send their kids to their neighborhood schools initially.

But then reality sets in by 1st or 2nd grade that the achievement gap is too big and DCPS doesn’t care about the higher performing kids.  It’s all about bringing the bottom up and meeting the lowest common denominator.  There is no tracking and your concerns fall on deaf ears.  Your kid is bored.  On top of that discipline issues become more prevalent.

PP is correct.  There is no way for parents to turn around a poor performing school when it comes from the top down that higher performing kids will be “fine” and in which their needs are not meant.

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Typo meant met[/quote]

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