Hey OP! Some of us are! Some of us have been there for years, working on things! Some of us are having success! Some of us are experiencing road blocks and socio-cultural conditions that we truly can not change in time to help our own children! Some of us think your suggestion is really simple-minded!

So start a damn PTA. So raise funds for the school. Call someone a channel 9 or at channel 5. You can do things to make your schools better. And blaming families because they've worked hard and they can afford to live in a wealthy your neighborhood that comes with the territory.

Uh, DC does not have districts or superintendents, at least in the context you appear to be using that term.

You are an idiot OP. My IB school doesn't even have a PTA or any formal parent organization. there is zero fundraising capabilities. The school is almost all ELL and the parents who are trying to "improve" the school are a handful of mainly white high SES parents and that doesn't go over so well with some of the admin and lower income families. And a group of 20 parents can only do much when 300 of the students are below grade level. So if I am trying to get my kid elsewhere because I work full time and I don't have the luxury of spending 60 hours a week improving my school thats my business.

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Anonymous wrote:So instead of joining the PTA or holding your current principal to the task you would rather join our school where we spend a lot of time making sure that our schools are great.

Don't be an idiot. Often "your schools are great" because the parents have money. Money equals resources. Money equals time (to volunteer, to fundraise, to XYZ).

It's a tremendously complex issue and it can't be boiled down to the usual nonsense about hard workers versus free-riders.

Stop trying.

This. Fwiw, we are in a crappy district and send our kids to private school. I tried going to the school board meetings and being involved but to superintendent just lies and shifts blame and attention.

well said OP well said, some will do amazing things to make changes others will quit and go the path of least resistance. I am with you,. improve your own school or be able to afford to live in the area where you want your kid to go to school.

Anonymous wrote:So instead of joining the PTA or holding your current principal to the task you would rather join our school where we spend a lot of time making sure that our schools are great.

Don't be an idiot. Often "your schools are great" because the parents have money. Money equals resources. Money equals time (to volunteer, to fundraise, to XYZ).

It's a tremendously complex issue and it can't be boiled down to the usual nonsense about hard workers versus free-riders.

Stop trying.

Anonymous wrote:So tell us what you've done to improve schools

... this also.

So instead of joining the PTA or holding your current principal to the task you would rather join our school where we spend a lot of time making sure that our schools are great.

Anonymous wrote:So someone has a 2-year-old that starts pre-K in 6 months. How do they go about fixing their in-boundary school before September of this year?

This... and...

Um. This is a question?

Not everyone has the time, resources, or skills to "fix" their in-boundary schools.

It's an enormous undertaking, and this is a facile, shit-stirring post.

So tell us what you've done to improve schools

So someone has a 2-year-old that starts pre-K in 6 months. How do they go about fixing their in-boundary school before September of this year?

Anonymous wrote:Stop asking if you can get in if you are OOB. It's that type of behavior that will never fix the schools.

OP you are an ass. It's this type of attitude that will keep our city segregated.

Stop asking if you can get in if you are OOB. It's that type of behavior that will never fix the schools.