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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]From a logic perspective, the more neighborhood families embracing a by-right middle school the better.

Visionary DCPS leaders could provide by-right middle schools with incentives to staff the darn honors classes, even if few (or no) students are in a position to take advantage of them during year one.

If you build it, they will come. And boy will they come if you can see beyond the end of your nose as a 21st-century planner for a rising school system.[/quote]

With 70% economically disadvantaged students, and 40% at-risk, you are truly not their target audience. They know that your kids -- like all kids with educated parents, good housing and nutrition -- will be fine in the long run, getting into and attending college and entering the workforce.

Achieving even some of those outcomes for the rest of the students is far from guaranteed.

It should not require 'incentives' to get you to embrace your by-right school. Just do it. 
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It shouldn't, but it absolutely does with the overwhelming majority of high SES neighborhood families.  So become more pragmatic, DCPS, to help poor kids as much as anything else.  At-risk students benefit from being in diverse schools, period. I should know, I received free school meals as a minority kid in mostly white schools.  My peer group taught me to aim high in a way that a low-SES environment could not have, no matter how strong the academics might have been.  The tyranny of low expectations can be seen on various levels in this city.[/quote]

High SES neighborhoods are few and far between in DC, and virtually all DO have a viable MS. Look at the census tract data. There are simply too many poor and otherwise disadvantaged kids.

The places where these struggles are the truly mixed neighborhoods racially, ethnically and economically (see Brookland, Takoma, Brightwood for examples) or where the "high SES" families have abandoned their neighborhood schools and families from less affluent neighborhoods have availed themselves of the empty space in the feeders or the MS itself.

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