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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why does a high school need to be test-in or even application?  High schools have the ability to offer a wide range of programs and classes so that everyone has access to everything.

DC is a education space full of choices and options.  I believe DCPS has shown it can attract a huge diversity of families.

To the folks here who are attempting to use shame and guilt - that does not work in attracting families to the Ward 6 middle schools. What works is building and investing in programs that can compete with charters, privates and the schools in the suburbs.  [b]DCPS is pretty close.[/b]

And finally - Joe Weedon has worked tirelessly to support and improve Elliot Hine and Eastern. I think we owe him thanks.

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Right, shame and guilt are blunt instruments producing no results. But if DCPS is indeed "pretty close" here in Ward 6 why has Stuart Hobson been 80% OOB for years and years? Why have Eastern, Jefferson and Eliot-Hine failed to attract more than a handful of white students each in catchment areas that have been majority white for a decade now?  DCPS isn't in fact close outside Upper NW.  They're hundreds of miles away, where they're content to stay because voters aren't canning the city council members who bump along with failed ed policies in gentrifying neighborhoods. Grosso is the worst offender.  
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Let's be honest, Jefferson and Eliot Hine have not only failed to attract white families, they have failed to attract black families.  They have failed to attract the number of families they need to survive. period. Plunging enrollments and half-filled buildings. Please be honest about why. Happy talk is worthless.[/quote]

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