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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's completely reasonable to wonder why DCPS isn't doing more to serve you, and to see the world through your own eyes.

But DC is a city where half the kids live in Wards 7 and 8, 27% of all kids have household incomes below the poverty line, and more than 3 in 10 won't graduate from high school.

School districts are built around the typical kid, not the exceptional kid. In DC, the typical kid is poor and does poorly in school. When they think of how to make Phelps better, it has nothing to do with your kid at all. It has nothing to do with attracting more kids like your kid. It's about dealing with the kids they currently have, and that's overwhelming enough to them without having to sell themselves to kids who will probably turn out fine regardless of how much effort DCPS puts into them. They won't get more political capital from the bulk of DC residents for trying to do more for your kid--just the opposite. And they won't get money from the big foundations either.

You don't have to like it. But the system isn't designed for you and it doesn't care if you like it.[/quote]

That's all fine and good but stop calling these schools "selective" and be honest about it.[/quote]

Selective just means they have an admissions process rather than going by lottery and address.  Stop thinking everything is about your demographic.[/quote]

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