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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What frightens me is that a long thread has to be created to answer such a self-evident question.

Here posters are hand-wringing, talking about stereotypes and apologizing for making obvious statements. Please, OP move to Southeast DC where they spend more money on schools than anywhere in the country and you can buy a SFH for cheap. The median income is nice and low and we all know that God made human beings all the same.

No wonder our country is failing. People like the OP vote. [/quote]

Low-income equals greater number of special education students.  Higher concentration of poverty correlates to higher costs educating a population.  So, yes, of course they spend more money on schools in SE DC than anywhere else in the nation.  Why on Earth would you think otherwise?  It's like saying we spend 2% more per capita in the nation's cancer wards than we do in the nation's general internal medicine departments, therefore cancer wards should have their funding cut.

Even if the student population in DCPS were as amenable to education as mostly-affluent student bodies, the dollar per student figure doesn't adjust for the fact that most of the state level education costs are rolled into that figure--unlike in local school districts.[/quote]

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