Reply #99: Lesson: Nobody on DU should send their kids to DC public schools [View All]

[Leopolds Ghost]

Good to know it's not just the rich who are expected to avoid urban schools. We can all pretend we all have the same opportunities to make our kids just every bit as safe and well-educated as the smartest and most privileged students in the country, if we simply avoid putting our kids in certain schools. And the rich can pretend our opportunities are almost as good as theirs while they apply the same standards to make sure their kids never have to attend the schools DUers insist on, such as Blair HS in Montgomery County MD. DUers will never stop to contemplate that someone else with much more money thinks THEIR school is shitty and would insist on Georgetown Day even if they lived in places like Montgomery County (which in fact almost all of them do!) Thereby ensuring that their kids have an opportunity to become president one day, unlike kids who didn't get into the Ivy League and a "global leadership track" private school. And also that there is, in fact, a tiered system of education the vast majority of parents tolerate that will continue until the last non-segregated school is shut down.