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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

But you would wish them on the low-brow, low SES kids who would sully otherwise great ward 3 schools with their hopeless aims of a better education?

Becausae that's what we're talking about here.[/quote]

Not really.  What we're talking about is that the ward 3 schools can only serve as an escape for those kids if the percentage of OOB kids is kept low enough that the culture of the school is preserved.  Otherwise, all those OOB kids simply bring the very culture their are trying to escape with them to the ward 3 school.  [b]So far, the evidence suggests that 20% is the upper limit for ES, probably lower for MS.  [/quote][/b]

Deal has 23% FARMS and 30% OOB and is doing just fine.[/quote]

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