Reply #201: Incorrect, disproven by evidence. Obama and Fenty and Rhee place the onus on teachers [View All]

[Leopolds Ghost]

Where it probably belongs.

The existence of teaching programs that dramatically reverse performance
of supposedly "pathological" inner city kids proves that theory incorrect.

That said,

Fenty and Rhee also want to close underperforming schools and minimize the
number of middle class or below families living in DC, not reinvest in it.

Your argument that it is an intractible problem of social pathology
(not unlike ignorant white hicks or gay people, as others claim) is
certainly not refuted if we simply try and dilute poor people in
other neighborhoods to minimize their visibility and increase
property values of the inner city, rather than actually stay put
and educate them.