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Deal is "well regarded" first and last because of the student population.  Not the shiny building, not the impressive Ms. Kim.  It's the students.  Who come primarily from the neighborhood.

Now imagine how awesome it would be if we could design a school from the ground up, without the strictures of DCPS and the central office, and designed it with Ward 3 kids in mind!    [/quote]

It is only in recent years that ward 3 residents began sending their children to Deal in droves. At one point, Deal was majority OOB. IB students decided on private or MC. Now Deal is at the brink of over capacity. IB students are attending and OOB are being locked out. There will be no seats for OOB.  The school offerings are not equal in Deal compared to other DC middle schools. The increase of IbB students at Deal has a lot to do with new facilities, new course offerings, greater technology, restructuring of classes, dynamic principal, increase in private schiol tuition, and downgrades in ones investment accounts  I know you would like to think that the parents and students in Ward 3 are better than the rest of us plebes, But they are not. They simply have more money.

Traditionally, DCPS has run failing schools for poor people, or people with not as much money as ward 3. Those families who could get out ran to parochial, charters, Deal, or moved to VA or MD. Believe me, there are highly involved parents and students throughout DC, but DCPS has ignored them. [/quote]

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