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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am an observant parent on the Hill and I too wonder about the division by socio-econ class.  I am seeing a superficial outlook and I think there's underlying current of dysfunction.

A bitterness is brewing.  Maybe that is too harsh. [/quote]

No I think you are seeing it nation-wide.  I think you are seeing in the OWS protests, in the very dysfunctional from my perspective Republican debates and attempts by the Democrats to take technology and wall street money but still be populists.   We have very severe, long term challenges to the American economy and the lack of a middle due to poor opportunity, cultural and social changes and poor education design.   The pieces that the NYT did on Apple offshoring the majority of its production is instructive

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/business/apple-america-and-a-squeezed-middle-class.html

But within DC yes there is bitterness when you consider how virtually impossible it feels to try and get ahead in this city if you are poor.  I know several kids that live in Trinidad that commute to Wilson that have a lot of potential, but they are raising themselves.  Their mother has no way of understanding how to help her quite talented kid.  He spends 2-3 hours on buses and trains every day.  He and his brother are lucky because school teachers and other mentors want to help them but for them to make any step forward is so much more than most DCUM kids.   At some point it weighs on you.  What happens when all you can look around and see are crappy jobs at CVS as your best prospect and frankly CVS is trying to eliminate that job because you don't have the math or english skills to be good at it.  That is the reality for at 60% of DCPS kids.  Yes the bitterness is real and you and I would feel too if we were in that situation.  [/quote]

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