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So basically the Mayor lied when she said there would be 550 out of boundary students set aside for this school.

In other words, it is basically going to be a white enclave high school with less diversity that all of the private schools in DC.

Reactions like yours are why the mayor felt she needed to lie.

DCPS has a problem. They have lots of high schools that not a lot of people want to go to, and a small number of high schools that a lot of people want to go to. They haven't been able to make the existing low-enrollment schools more attractive. If they add more schools like the ones that are attractive they get criticized for promoting inequality. They can't win.
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DCPS should pick one high school EOTP (e.g., Eastern) and implement  advanced classes with entry level criteria.  That is what happened at Wilson almost 20 years ago with the Wilson Academies program and it is what caused Wilson IB families to start attending Wilson.   And, since in DC doing that would result in advanced classes that are going to be more white and higher income than DCPS as a whole, DCPS needs to put effort in at the junior high level to counselling and identifying lower income students who are capable of those classes so that those students have the same knowledge base regarding course selection and goals as the kids from the higher-resourced households.  That is what true equity work looks like.  [/quote]

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