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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My grandpa got off the boat in 1910 after his parents died with nothing and struggled to make ends meet his whole life. He never spoke english well. But he pushed his kids to get educated so the poverty cycle didn't perpetuate.

At some point you gotta take responsibility and move forward.[/quote]

If "You" are adults with children and "you" don't take responsibility and move forward, then it becomes a lot harder for your kids to do it.  Decent public education can't make up all the difference, but it's a start.  By "decent" I mean education focused on particular children's needs - not just expecting miracles using the latest, untested method on them.

It might take a while.  It might not be completely successful, in terms of bringing all of them into the middle class, but it beats what happening now.[/quote]

Not the PP but someone with a similar family history on both sides. Immigrant grandparents & great-grandparents who worked like dogs to give their kids stability and an education. 
The "you" means parents. Parents must prioritize their family structure. Their children need to be the focus. I don't care if mom and grandma are educated (my grandmothers were not) but they took care of the children/family and made home a solid, calm, favorite place to be with good food and warm interactions. My immigrant grandmas (from two different cultures) always told us kids how smart we are and how imortant it was to read and study and be proud of ourselves.
If kids come from stable, solid homes, they will be ready and available to learn at school.   [/quote]

Exactly -- and there are a lot of kids in this city (and elsewhere) who unfortunately haven't have that stability.  Also unfortunately, the recent reform effort denied that home stability was  a factor in the ability of schools to provide excellent education.  Therefore DCPS spent a lot of wasted time and effort demonizing teachers and principals to prove their point.  They were horribly wrong, as some people knew from the beginning.  I don't recall many middle class parents protesting much at the time though.

I'm glad to see that's changing and that more parents are starting to understand that public education problems in DC aren't simple and don't have a simple answer -  like moving kids around the city like widgets or assessing teachers as if they are producing widgets all made from the same raw material.[/quote]

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