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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][/quote]  Is Jefferson Academy selective admissions?   If not, why not?  Why not have a selective admissions middle school co-locate within a regular school?  Isn't that what Wilson has with its Academies?[/quote]

Many thanks to 22.41 for your insightful analysis.  Do get an op-ed piece in somewhere.  Go for the Wash Times if the Post spurns you. What do you think is to be done?  Is Tommy Wells a DC Council Member who should go or stay in regard to going to bat for middle-class Hill families seeking appropriate course offerings for advanced learners at the middle school level?  You hear the same tiresome stories about SH year after year, and Latin doesn't differentiate nearly enough for some either.

Should the younger generation of Brent families (including us) be organizing with the Maury PTA gang to get him voted out, or at least call attention to ES challenge and MS feeder issues by shaking him up during his next race (I'm picturing "BRENT & MAURY PARENTS SEEKING A STRONG MS FEEDER FOR CANDIDATE X" signs in yards).  I'm new to politics of MS feeders, but the 4-5th grade exodus numbers at Brent speak for themselves.  Are parents being overly polite in using them to challenge politicians?

As for the question above, doesn't Jefferson Academy use some sort of lame admissions test?  Or only admit students scoring proficient on the 5th grade DC-CAS?  It can't be at all difficult for kids to enter the Academy, not with the proficiency rate just 2-3 points higher than that of the traditional program (in the low 40s).

I was disappointed by the way Henderson behaved at the Ward 6 State of the Schools meeting last month.  She didn't seem remotely tuned in or gutsy on gentrification issues.  Just did a lot of glad handing and tooting DCPS' horn.

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