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Are you seriously suggesting that this is something he, and other parents, should just accept as part of DCPS - just the cost of doing business?

Did you read anyplace where I made that suggestion?

Uh, yeah. When you wrote,

My oh my, I imagine that you'll be sending your kids to the nearest convent real soon. Wouldn't want them to be a part of DCPS which "produces" kids like the aforementioned.

that's a pretty clear suggestion that "kids like the aforementioned" are inescapable in DCPS. Then, for good measure, you wrote,

Bad students are the price of doing business with any schoool public or private.

Which, to be fair, you're correct, isn't a suggestion so much as an explicit statement.

I'm not so sure what's controversial about Tim's statement, anyway. I live within 30 yards of a reportedly up and coming DCPS elementary school. By all accounts, the principal is great, in-bound enrollment is expanding rapidly, and there's a long wait-list for the first time in forever. Yet based on the consistent behavior of the students that go there - fights in the alley, throwing rocks at our neighbor's dog, the language used (screamed, actually), to name just a small portion of it - there is no way I would send my kid there. There are other options where this type of behavior isn't an issue, or is much less prevalent. If I can eliminate one potential barrier to my kid gettign a great education, why wouldn't I (or Tim, or Oboe, or anyone else)?

by dcd on Jul 23, 2012 5:09 pm • link • report

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