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Anonymous wrote:Seems like this forum has seen a lot of visits from the ghost of DCPS past. Gimme the voucher or Wilson or we’re all moving to NoVa or St Albans while dumping on EOTP schools and telling black kids to pull themselves up by their bootstraps. Or maybe somebody’s just bored at Mar a Lago.

Seriously. It's really disheartening to read this thread as a black parent. Not surprising, but disheartening. I'm glad to see not everyone here thinks like this.

Another black parent here, disappointed too but not surprised. I feel most white parents aren’t comfortable with their children being one or few white children beyond early childhood classes. Despite a diversity push, this area and its schools are very segregated. What is a safe racial balance for everyone to be happy, safe and adequately educated?

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Anonymous wrote:^^^ Agreed on bureaucrats not wanting to spend the money for low income kids. So then I'll take the voucher so my kid can actually safely go to school somewhere.

It's actually the voting public that doesn't support the spending.

omg how much more spending do you need. DC spends an insane amount on education and gets almost nothing back, you know why

It starts with the parents/culture. When too many people don't value that, no amount of spending is going to fix this underlying problem

OK, so gimme the voucher. Fixing DCPS is useless and people deserve a safe place for their children to learn.

The research is quite clear that vouchers and charters don't really enhance student achievement. Sure KIPp gets high test scores, but their graduates really underperform their high test scores when it comes to college completion. When you control for family income, private schools do little for upper middle class kids. Please read the last billion or so peer reviewed studies.

DCPS schools like Janney easily outperform a lot of schools in the suburbs.

Anonymous wrote:Seems like this forum has seen a lot of visits from the ghost of DCPS past. Gimme the voucher or Wilson or we’re all moving to NoVa or St Albans while dumping on EOTP schools and telling black kids to pull themselves up by their bootstraps. Or maybe somebody’s just bored at Mar a Lago.

Seriously. It's really disheartening to read this thread as a black parent. Not surprising, but disheartening. I'm glad to see not everyone here thinks like this.

Seems like this forum has seen a lot of visits from the ghost of DCPS past. Gimme the voucher or Wilson or we’re all moving to NoVa or St Albans while dumping on EOTP schools and telling black kids to pull themselves up by their bootstraps. Or maybe somebody’s just bored at Mar a Lago.

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Anonymous wrote:^^^ Agreed on bureaucrats not wanting to spend the money for low income kids. So then I'll take the voucher so my kid can actually safely go to school somewhere.

It's actually the voting public that doesn't support the spending.

omg how much more spending do you need. DC spends an insane amount on education and gets almost nothing back, you know why

It starts with the parents/culture. When too many people don't value that, no amount of spending is going to fix this underlying problem

OK, so gimme the voucher. Fixing DCPS is useless and people deserve a safe place for their children to learn.

All about you, huh?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^^^ Agreed on bureaucrats not wanting to spend the money for low income kids. So then I'll take the voucher so my kid can actually safely go to school somewhere.

It's actually the voting public that doesn't support the spending.

omg how much more spending do you need. DC spends an insane amount on education and gets almost nothing back, you know why

It starts with the parents/culture. When too many people don't value that, no amount of spending is going to fix this underlying problem

OK, so gimme the voucher. Fixing DCPS is useless and people deserve a safe place for their children to learn.

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Anonymous wrote:Can you say "voucher"? That would be your friend EotP.

Not really. I'd rather keep working toward solid public schools than some capitalist wet dream.

LOL. Keep dreaming. DCPS always disappoints. You'll figure that out when you're moving to the 'burbs.

That's what people have been saying to me for years now. There are some disappointments, but overall satisfied.

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Anonymous wrote:^^^ Agreed on bureaucrats not wanting to spend the money for low income kids. So then I'll take the voucher so my kid can actually safely go to school somewhere.

It's actually the voting public that doesn't support the spending.

omg how much more spending do you need. DC spends an insane amount on education and gets almost nothing back, you know why

It starts with the parents/culture. When too many people don't value that, no amount of spending is going to fix this underlying problem

Anonymous wrote:^^^ Agreed on bureaucrats not wanting to spend the money for low income kids. So then I'll take the voucher so my kid can actually safely go to school somewhere.

It's actually the voting public that doesn't support the spending.

^^^ Agreed on bureaucrats not wanting to spend the money for low income kids. So then I'll take the voucher so my kid can actually safely go to school somewhere.

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Anonymous wrote:Can you say "voucher"? That would be your friend EotP.

Not really. I'd rather keep working toward solid public schools than some capitalist wet dream.

LOL. Keep dreaming. DCPS always disappoints. You'll figure that out when you're moving to the 'burbs.

Vouchers will not fix anything. I come from an area with a ton of vouchers and choice and the schools pretty much sucked. The problem with DCPS is that doing right by the low-income kids is expensive and nobody wants to face up to it.

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Anonymous wrote:Can you say "voucher"? That would be your friend EotP.

Not really. I'd rather keep working toward solid public schools than some capitalist wet dream.

LOL. Keep dreaming. DCPS always disappoints. You'll figure that out when you're moving to the 'burbs.

evacuees? really??

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Anonymous wrote:This NPR story has a table of how many 4th graders re-enrolled for 5th grade at various schools: https://wamu.org/story/16/03/02/5th_grade_dropoff/

Dramatically out of date report for Brent in just two years. When NPR ran the story, only 9 or 10 kids from 4th had stayed at Brent for 5th. This year, 40 have stayed. Mary and SWS have experienced a similar phenomenon.

I just watched the SWS holiday concert. There are 20 kids in fifth vs. 40 in 4th.

In that case, at least, it has 100 percent to do with the middle school feeder pattern and zero percent to do with satisfaction with the school.

Aren't most of those 5th graders ib for Stuart Hobson?

Some are but a lot aren’t and many of the evacuees followed siblings at Latin. And some ha e gone private. And some have moved off the Hill.

And several went to BASIS.

Anonymous wrote:Can you say "voucher"? That would be your friend EotP.

Not really. I'd rather keep working toward solid public schools than some capitalist wet dream.