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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]12:26 here...  I DO have an actual suggestion:  The bottom line is that the schools need to improve, DCPS needs to recognize that many people perceive deep problems, that, as a result, people are avoiding many of the DCPS schools like the plague to instead move away (if they can), or send their kids to privates (if they can afford it), shlep their kids across town to charters, shlep their kids across town as OOB, et cetera.  That is the stark reality that DCPS needs to deal with.  City-wide lottery is just dealing with the symptoms, not the root cause.

NOBODY should be forced to have to go through all of that.  NOBODY should be forced to move or shlep their kids across town to get access to a decent school.

This BS about just treating symptoms, denying there's  a problem, paying it lip service, and deflecting of blame to everything else isn't going to solve anything.[/quote]

You are stubbornly blind to the truth. The problem in parts of the city other than where you live is multi-generational poverty and lots of societal dysfunction.  What does improve the school mean in cases of concentrated poverty? And if the school was improved in order to serve kids poor backgrounds well it still might not be a good fit for those in the neighborhood who dont need this kind of specialized Programming. You are entirely disregarding the fact that most families who lottery to OOB schools are not avoiding their neighborhood school, but they are avoiding the difficulties and environment created by the families in those schools. Simply improving schools citywide as you suggest does nothing to address the real motivations here[/quote]

And lotterying into all-lottery schools won't solve the problem either.  Those schools will simply be filled with families trying to "escape" eachother.[/quote]

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