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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Folks like to taunt Ward 3 residents, as demonstrated by responses on this board.  Frankly, I think DCPS administrators enjoy taunting them, too, as the "explanation" they've provided for killing Fillmore holds no water once you look at it.  DCPS no response to the reality on the ground that the 5 Fillmore schools have no classrooms for art education. [/quote]

And you have never lived outside ward 3 (maybe 4), right? Ward three has always been very well off. Deal, the likely best neighborhood middle school in the city is in ward 3. Wilson, the closest thing DCPS has to an adequate high school is in ward three. Read the list of the best elementary schools? Where are most of them? Ward 3.

Wilson and Deal both recently were renovated recently. Lafayette is currently being renovated. Murch was renovated how many times in the past ten years? At least twice Im pretty sure. In fact, you would be hard pressed to find a non-renovated school in ward 3 (I tend to lump ward four above the park in with ward three as well, as it is exactly the same).

Filmore was a program geared towards wealthy students of all races. Its not a racial thing, its a class thing. DC is likely the absolutely most segregated city Ive ever seen, and is just getting worse and worse. Live anywhere outsides wards 1-4 and you can easily see it... I hope you can at least see why some people might question funding a program that primarily serves the wealthy and comply ignoring arts education in wards across the river. I have no doubt that next year said schools will have dedicated arts classrooms, paid for by donations from parents. And said teachers who lose their jobs will have nice new jobs at swanky private organizations teaching the same kids and stimulating the economy when their students from Fillmore's parents pay them thousands a year to teach their little darlings the same shit outside of school hours.

And maybe DCPS will actually use the money saved to improve arts education in ward 7 and 8.

Though who am I kidding. They probably will just rehab Murch again. God knows it's been like a full two years since the last time they threw money around there, must be absolutely falling apart again by now.[/quote]

The issue of equity in DCPS is not simple.

Yes, Ward 3 has the highest-performing schools. However, they have the lowest per-pupil allotments as well. Every school in Ward 3 is over-crowded, while DCPS schools on average are about a third empty. [b]And most of the kids who attend school in Ward 3 live in other parts of the city.[/b] None of those things are unrelated to each other. Apples and oranges all over the place.[/quote]

You need to break this down for it to be credible.  Even my dead cat knows that upper NW ES elementaries are stacked with IB students, and have long waitlists.

Don't pretend there's no difference between ES, MS, and HS.  Whatever point you hoped to make is destroyed by your lack of credibility.  [/quote]

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