I’ve written about my own travails dealing with Washington, D.C.’s education system before. In a column in today’s Washington City Paper, I write about how the District’s education politics remain fundamentally driven by the politics of privilege, class, and race.
Mothers on the playground literally wrung their hands while worrying over how the proposals could “change the character of our [strong, relatively gentrified elementary] school.” In most cases, these folks’ kids were already admitted and enrolled at the higher-performing schools. They were just concerned that the schools could weaken if the boundary shifts increased the percentage of less-wealthy students who had in-boundary rights to attend.
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[Cross-posted at Ed Central]
