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Neighborhood schools make sense. Stop forcing awkward, expensive social engineering on families and students.
Wonder if we could get the real reasons for this cure all called Diversity. Will having more Whites mean the school will have a better chance at becoming a passing school? Is that the hope? Would that do anything about the elusive achievement gap? Having all passing schools would certainly look great for RPS.......on paper. But if it's achieved because of the bringing in of White kids raises school scores, has RVA really solved the true problems of a failing school? Or is this push for forced Diversity just a social struct to help with the so called fabric of society? Very good then, if it works, but then who is going to educate the children while the RPS are busy social engineering?
Let me see if I've got this right. You've got schools that have failed accreditation, students who are continually, year after year, failing on scholastic achievement tests. You can't keep the heat on in a lot of them, with winter indoor temps hovering in the 50s to perhaps 60. You have ceiling tiles falling on children's heads. But you're concerned with DIVERSITY??? That, right there, is why Richmond's school children are failing and will continue to fail.
Right on the money Kendall, for the most part RPS has failed miserably in their primary objective, educate the children. Instead, they continue with this diversity garbage, which is mostly indoctrination in Liberal and Leftist policies, while they continue to fail at educating our children. A voucher system is now the ONLY answer to the the horribly mismanaged and broken Richmond Public Schools, and if Mr. Kamras and the Richmond school board REALLY cared about the education of our children, then voucher system would be front and center for public evaluation........But it isn't, because Kamras and especially the Richmond school board are more interested in maintaining the status quo, which is continual failure to educate children.
Busing was a cure all for diversity and a better education for all …. Why not do it again, since it worked so well. The 2,700 extra miles my youngest had to ride to school each year sure made her an A student and more diverse. Period.
The 2000 pound elephant in the room is the continuous falsification of the level of educational achievement of the students perpetrated by the teachers and administrators. Jason Kamras is a charlatan.
Parents of All who can afford to pull their children from RPS will do so. Listen up it’s not school zones it’s broken homes when you have school zones with 30% PTA participation rates verses other schools zones that have 100% PTA partication rates fundamentally we are moving the real issue. I lived in a broken home and it was I who kept my brother and 3 sisters educated and out of trouble. Today the difference is big brother is in Jail and the kids come home to the street. I refused to let my brother and sisters not be a failure
If all this diversity ‘enhancement’ improves the outcome for all students it will be worthwhile otherwise it is just another social experiment that victimizes children.
Just another reason to oppose regional cooperation as they will soon try and do this across county lines. Richmond City is a disaster after decades of mismanagement and stunts like this will drive more taxpayers away.
Richard Roberts you are spot on.
Sorry parents who say you support public education but you only mean segregated public education. You can’t have it both ways.
OTOH, rezoning proponents, be prepared to dilute parent involvement in direct proportion to the percentage of families of lower socioeconomic status at your newly combined school . If you don’t have a car, it is hard to get to school activities.
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