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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is a mess, but a good lesson to the spoiled, privileged whites in DC that they are not quite the masters of the universe that they have come to believe they are.  Shit happens and you do not always come out ahead.  [/quote]

If moving to Bethesda or similar to avoid an epic school mess is not coming ahead by your definition, I am OK with that. I hardly think we and anyone else who will move or go private will learn some sort of lesson about suffering.

And that's why whatever plan they can come up with has to please middle/upper-middle class families in some way. Because guess what - a lot of these families have options other than DCPS and they will take them. When you can't mandate your higher SES families stay in the system, you should do something to insentivize them.  Or you can just decide you don't care if they leave, which is certainly an option but will hardly fix your broken school system.

As to the PP who said good riddance and that people like me are being selfish - sure. I am selfish. I put my child's well being and future above that of children I do not know. My DD's education is not a social experiment. You are welcome to stay and make your child's education into one.

Also, any of the social justice posters here - how many of you were ever low SES or went to a really bad school? During my childhood, I had the pleasure of being/doing both. I've worked quite hard not to repeat either experience for my child. If I have a choice (and I do), I would never send her to the kind of middle school I went to, any more than I would want her to live in the kind of neighborhood I did.

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