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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I once read that DC student population is over 50% poverty

The schools are always going to suck.  Studies show once you pass 40% poverty the whole area is screwed

So the only thing we can do is have charters and concentrated areas of high SES so 25% of the schools are decent and 75% suck

If you spread everything equally 100% of the schools in DC would suck

That is also why people leave DC are choose private.  There are just too many poor young people in the area[/quote]

It is closer to 70% - if you consider qualifying for free meals poor.[/quote]

This perspective ignores the fact that DC is rapidly gentrifying.  I don't know the year over year rate of change for FARMS, but I'd imagine that there are rapid decreases in FARMS and other metrics.

I don't think having "charters and concentrated areas of high SES"--effectively maintaining areas of concentrated poverty--is the answer for an equitable and fair education system.  However, I also don't like the idea of city-wide schools.  I know some don't like the idea of a 10% set-aside for disadvantaged students, but that seems to at least go a little way towards evening the playing field.

Also keep in mind that if low SES kids don't do well--e.g., they get pregnant as teens, enter the prison system, etc.--we'll all be paying for it in the end, in one form or another.  [/quote]

Exactly this.  What is the SE  background of PK 3 across the city?  In many respects both sides are talking past each other as the anti-DCPS folks have at their disposal tons of stats of what DCPS looks like from PK-3 to 12.  On the other, lots of young families in schools across the city and it doesn't feel as dire, but zero stats to support that, just anecdotal, hunches.  [/quote]

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