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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No, parents want their at grade level/above grade level kids to be challenged. Academic level usually correlates with SES but not always. I don't think parents would care if their kids went to class with smart, motivated students from a lower SES at all. [/quote]

I think the point here is that you LIVE IN DC. Not in an enclave with all high SES or "motivated" low SES students. It is appropriate to want your child to be taught appropriately. It is inappropriate to push for segregated solutions in Ward 6. [/quote]

And what will be the result if there is no sort of tracking or programming for creating cohorts of mostly on grade level students?  Extreme segregation as people move away in search of that.  So you have some sort of segregation anyway. How about a solution where students who can't move away at least. S edit from all sorts of families using the neighborhood school?[/quote]

You act like history began when you gave birth.

What "happens" is what you see now. As the school populations change, the offerings change (see Hardy or MacFarland's dual language program).

But UNTIL and UNLESS you enroll your kids, you aren't going to get the programs that match your kid's abilities. DCPS tried that on the Hill/Ward 6 and it didn't work. I'm referring to Eastern HS where DCPS went through a lengthy and expensive process to become an IB school because high SES parents said that sort of rigorous programming + upgraded facilities -- were what would induce them to enroll. And no one did, because the IB program isn't 'proven' or scoring high enough on IB exams or whatever other excuse. DCPS held up its end of the bargain; Hill parents balked.

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DCPS made a dumb decision, then with Eastern.  They needed to sort out the middle school situation FIRST. duh.  This is precisely why parents have little to no confidence in DCPS outside of NW beyond elementary grades. Bass ackwards  ( and expensive ) decisions like this.  Eastern is gorgeous. It is, by all reports, serving its students better than before the re-start.  But if the GOAL was to get white and lots of black middle class hill residents to go there for high school, it was a complete fumble and entirely their fault. [/quote]

This was the Michelle Rhee era; they focused on ECE and expansion of Pk3 to many more schools (that worked). The emphasis was to push the Pk3-8th educational centers although that was pretty quickly abandoned, leaving us with the mess we have now.

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