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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Why on earth is it parents responsibility to come up with solutions to educating the poor and disadvantaged in DC. Let our well-informed, public officials with access to experts and consultants and law firms come up with some ideas and we can support[/quote]

Because so much of that expertise has been directed at upper NW for so long that the number of disadvantaged in DC only grows larger?

Because the concentration of quality is so small that the only idea floated by the "experts" is redistribution?

Because public officials can only hear the demands of the wealthy?

Because the DINKs who can afford to stay in the city won't be asking for quality education?

Because your tax dollars can pay for better education now or bloated welfare rolls and overcrowded prisons later?[/quote]

I'm not sure I'd agree with the suggestion that expertise or quality is in NW - those schools have no special magic or extra DCPS resources - primarily the difference is that they have a lot of involved parents.  As for listening to demands of the wealthy - I don't think they do, else we wouldn't have all the overcrowding in those schools, the unmet demands which push wealthier families to charters, privates or the suburbs, or these cockamamie boundary proposals being floated around.  However I do agree with the remainder of your statements.[/quote]

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