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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What about why they are building a $50million (and then some due to the "unknown" gas line) middle school in Brookland for 550 students when the demographic trends in Brookland are sending fewer and fewer InBounds kids to the local elementaries. They barely have half those numbers in feeder schools.  How will they attract students to this school when they can't attract them to the local DCPS and everyone we know attends charters or privates. [/quote]

Why?? Didn't you hear?  People like the one from the Hill quoted in the story won't consider attending a school unless it is already up, running, beautiful and enriched.  And left unsaid, "...and already full of people in my demographic."[/quote]

Apply some critical thinking skills to the article and the graphics alongside it.  Yes, the reporter quoted plenty of Capitol Hill and Ross parents but the REAL exodus from middle schools is in wards 7 and 8 where the charter sector is booming.  You need to widen your view a bit and see that the real divide is people actively seeking quality educational environments and programs and students ready to learn, not necessarily a certain demographic or SES.

The people quoted in this article are small fry compared to the problem across other parts of the city[/quote]

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