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You've just explained in a nutshell why DCPS is going to suck as a school system until gentrification progresses much further than it already has. [b]Unemployment among young people in DC is around 50% because we've pursued policies that ensure the poorest of the region's poor must live in the District. [/b]Fortunately that is changing. Hopefully in 5 years from now, unemployment among DC's young people will be around 20%.  And MD's (and VA's) will be similar.

So long as the purpose of all of the District's institutions is to remediate regional poverty, those institutions are going to suck at what they're nominally supposed to be doing.[/quote]Say, I know what would fix that.  Here's what we do, we find some land that no one wants to live on, set up some villages and towns, and move the poor out there - you know, kind of like a special place that's [i]reserved[/i] just for them.  That way, we don't have to accommodate their needs in the District and they can get special help and live only among their own.  It worked with the Cherokee in 1831.  Why not the poor in 2013?  They'd get exercise too if we made them march out there!

You know what they say about people being too dumb to learn from history....[/quote]

Here's a better idea: [b]DC gives poor residents a monthly stipend to live wherever they like.[/b] Say $1500 per month per family. And counseling to find the best house for their money, in the best possible school district. In six months 90% of DC's poor would be living in MD and VA.

There is a powerful coalition that benefits from the current system of apartheid: suburbanites, DC politicians, etc... Not so good for the families, though.[/quote]

You realize this could never work because once you leave DC you're no longer a resident, right? Or is this satire?[/quote]

It's the way things effectively work now. Poor folks get housing vouchers, they move to the suburbs, they have better outcomes.

In any case, it was in response to a suggestion that we create reservations, so obviously it's not a politically realizable goal. Still, it's effectively what has been happening for the last decade, and what will continue to happen: public housing projects torn down, people given vouchers, people (quite rationally) choosing to move out of the city.[/quote]

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