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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Shepherd already feeds Deal.  Shepherd and Deal are both IB schools.  Shepherd students attending Deal have had the right once enrolled in Deal to continue to Wilson (per DCPS).  This doesn't represent a change.  9:59 is either being sarcastic or really doesn't know the demographics of Shepherd Park.[/quote]
Bancroft already feeds Deal, too. It also feeds into Lincoln/CHEC, yet the overwhelming majority of 5th graders (or their parents) choose Deal. Even low income Latino parents know which is the better school. 
We'll also have MacFarland as an option and if they can build a high quality program, Bancroft parents will come. 
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If you read the DME proposal in full, you see that Bancroft will have rights to Deal/Wilson but also a programmatic feed to the (yet to be established) McFarland dual language program. This McFarland program will also be an option for all of the other DCPS bilingual schools regardless of location, except Oyster, which has its own MS already. For example Cleveland, Tyler are far away geographically but will have this programmatic feed to McFarland in addition to their geographic feed. If the McFarland program is looking promising, parents from the DCPS bilingual schools may be interested. In the meantime, it is proposed that Bancroft remain as a Deal feeder.

Regarding CHEC... It's perhaps odd that CHEC converted to bilingual, given that its main current feeder schools (Cooke, Tubman) are not bilingual programs. As PP mentioned, most Bancroft parents choose Deal. You could perhaps ask the admin of CHEC why they did that. I somehow doubt that it was part of any overall DCPS plan, given the feeder schools. I imagine they were attempting a rebranding? It may have made more sense to have CHEC officially English-only, with a lot of de facto bilingualism accomplished through teaching assistants. This is what they do at Cooke, and it's a sensible approach to an English program when you have a lot of latinos attending. But that's just a suggestion from an outsider. Again, it was CHEC's decision to convert to bilingual, doesn't seem to have been part of any overall plan, so it's really CHEC's issue to figure out how to handle students coming from English-only feeders. Thankfully Tubman and especially Cooke have a lot of latinos so maybe it is working ok in practice - I don't know.

But it does not make any sense to say that Bancroft should be directed into CHEC just because CHEC made its own decision to "go bilingual" when its feeders were mostly English-only. I think the DME staff and committee understand this very well, which is why your suggestion was not adopted in their proposal.

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