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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And a big part of the parenting problem has to do with parents' ability to make a livable income.  Guess where that ability starts?

Yes, there are choices to be made but if those choices are harshly limited, you have to be a pretty extraordinary person to just find out what better choices are out there, let alone make them.

For a lot of parents, the right choice is getting their kid out of their immediate neighborhood.  That's more and more difficult to do with housing choices, so school is a start but we're cutting that off, too.

For more on the history of federal-level policymaking that created housing segregation, listen to the "House Rules" episode of This American Life that features the research of Nikole Hannah-Jones, who was also in the NPR story in the original post on this thread.

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/512/house-rules

If you can't give up a whole hour, just listen to the 5 minute prologue about the girl whose mother went to jail for sending her daughter to a school in a different neighborhood.[/quote]

The people with really bad parenting skills don't know or care how to get their kids to a good school in a different neighborhood.  There are charters in DC that don't have lotteries because they are in neighborhoods where the charter is the most convenient school to go to and no one from across town would want to go there.  The neighborhood school may have closed. So the kids just go to the charter.  A parent who cares about their children's education, AND has transportation AND time to check out the better charters MIGHT get their kids in a good charter school IF they win the lottery.

This is no way to run a public school system with a responsibility to provide education for all.[/quote]

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