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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Forget actually improving DC's schools and smartening up the children of longtime residents.  We know how that's gone for the past 30 years.

Is the current strategy for improvement of DC schools basically as follows?

*as higher income households with young children East of the Park grow -

* the number of known "good" school choices will not grow at a similar rate -

* not all of those households will want to move or put their kids in expensive private schools -

* new kids from high-success households will eventually translate into greater success in the testing grades and greater diversity (that's right, middle-income people of all races) -

* thus finally making incoming parents no longer afraid of -

* their kid(s) being the "lonely only" kid that supposed to desegregate DC schools based on race, class, etc. (and of course in the process get the shit kicked out of them all the time) -

* putting their kids in schools that fail to educate and seeing their kids dragged down too -

* And once the higher economic status families get a toehold in these schools, we will start to see increased success -

Is that basically the unwritten plan DCPS is going with right now?  Inflammatory subject.  But is it true?[/quote]

As cynical as it sounds, that was part of Michelle Rhee's plan.  She made no secret of her efforts to court middle-class parents and coax them into the system.

I agree with the PP who said that charters make it less likely to succeed.  You can be sure that a lot of Hill parents send their students across town to Latin rather than enroll them in SH - which is easily the best DCPS MS east of the park.  It's really difficult to get past the poor reputation of the DCPS choices, whereas it's comparatively easy to be intrigued by the ambitious goals that the nimbler charter schools can set.  Even unproven charter schools (a la BASIS) look good when they can persuade you based on a marketing strategy instead of results.  They don't have the legacy of disappointment that saddles DCPS.[/quote]

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