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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Burning out? Oh, please. It's more like copping out. I guess some folks just are not interested in ever having to work hard for anything, some folks are not interested in ever improving their lives. [/quote]

This is really getting rather grotesque. I so hope that you're the same poster spilling this ignorance over several threads this week.

You add absolutely nothing useful to any discussion about education, so please stop. Just stop. [/quote]

What's grotesque is people who can't be bothered to help themselves.   Education is meaningless to people who don't value learning.  And don't say it's not true,  given all of the kids who can't be bothered with homework, who drop out and so on.  Fix that and most of the rest will follow.  Ignore it,  and it will be you who has nothing to offer. [/quote]

Hurray everyone! You just fixed everything that's wrong with DCPS. Slowclaps for this asshole![/quote]

[b]Ad-hominems and lame snark will not change the fact that where you find an achievement gap, you will also find anti-intellectualism, you will also find a lack of personal accountability, a lack of work ethic, a lack of parental support, and a lot of things just taken for granted.  Call people names all you like but it only makes you look all the more like you are either ignorant, in denial, or outright dishonest when you do so.  Look, I say what I say because I lived it and witnessed it because I was a FARMS kid in an inner city 99% FARMS school for many years.  The bright nerdy kids, the hard-working kids got beaten up for it and ended up hiding in a corner of the classroom, discouraged and broken.  Luckily we ended up moving across the country and I ended up in a different school which was mostly higher-SES, and it was a completely different culture there, where most of my peers were actually focused on college and careers, as opposed to just being focused on smoking weed and hanging out.[/b]

It's not a money or resources problem - in DC, the schools with the highest low-SES concentrations already get significantly more funding and resources per student than the ones with high-SES (for example $9,000 per student at Amidon-Bowen compared to $7,000 per student at Janney).  And, it's not just a matter of shifting boundaries, restricting choice, or shuffling kids around to create "diversity".  Diversity is fantastic, but there has to be a sufficent number of students sharing a culture of achievement, otherwise the culture of underachieving and anti-intellectualism will drag the other students down.

There's a lot that can and should be contributed to this discussion, but if all you want to do is call people names and refuse to hear some hard realities simply because you don't like hearing them, then it is you who has nothing to contribute.  You are welcome to try and disprove anything I've said, but the data behind what I say does not lie.[/quote]

Thank you!  I too was a product of this type of environment.  However, when I speak out about it on DCUM people think I'm an elitists or a racists.  I speak out against the anti-intellectual and dysfunctional mentalities because I lived it and worked in it.   My saving grace was attending Catholic school and relocating to another part of DC.  My elementary school years were  brutal and torturous.  I wouldn't wish them on my worst enemy.   [/quote]

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