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[quote=Anonymous]According to the Census, there are only 24,000 kids aged 10-14 in DC--and that's a major overstatement of how many high schoolers there will be in a few years since families will send kids to private  school or move out of the District.  Even if they all went to public high school, about half would be in charters. The top 1% of DCPS kids would only be 24 kids per grade, which is not enough to run a very interesting high school--especially since the top couple dozen most gifted kids in DC are not going to be gifted in the same way: some are going to want to do physics research and some are going to write plays and some are going to build computers and some want to learn Hindi and study international relations.

I think the DCPS application high schools plus AP at Wilson and IB at Eastern offer rigorous curricula, though the schools each have aspects that make them not a great fit for certain kids.  A motivated student can also use the resources of the universities, agencies, organizations, etc. in the city to do a whole lot more.

Fixing the pipeline seems like a useful step--identifying smart kids at early grades and working with them in ways parents like.  And there could be improvements (different ones for each school) at SWW, Banneker, Wilson, Eastern, etc. But building a whole new TJ-like school makes a lot less sense to me than working on McKinley Tech, which has the same aims.[/quote]

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