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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If DCPS wants to encourage higher SES and well-educated families (of all races) to consider EoftheP schools, then not only do they have to create G&T test-in/magnet options to ensure that the advanced kid will not be dragged down, but they also have to figure out how to get tough on the behavior/cultural issues that frighten higher SES families away.  That means being a lot quicker to expel problem kids and/or create specialized KIPP-like models to redirect the behaviorally challenged kids into.  No matter the quality of the magnet program, parents (both white and AA) are not going to send their kid to [Eastern/Coolidge/CHEC/Roosevelt/etc.] if they are afraid of their kid getting "jumped" in the hallway.

Following up on 11:19--if DCPS wanted to capture the higher SES families up 16th from Dupont to Colonial Villlage---then it should focus on CHEC/Bell or McFarland/Roosevelt and then feed Oyster Adams/Ross/Garrison/Bancroft/Shepard Park/West/Powell into it.  (I'm probably forgetting an ES but you get the general idea).  [/quote]

I agree with this. I'm the product of a major city's G&T test-in magnet schools myself. That was a good model for encouraging diversity (I think there were racial quotas involved at the time) while maintaining very high academic standards for qualifying students. I'd very much like to see such options here.  [/quote]

We would all love to see such options. Quite frankly, the demographic shift in the population of DC over the past decade has made such an option feasible again.  It is time for us to demand it.[/quote]

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