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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I feel that basically if we show up we will win. And I’ll be honest about it, if people with money and degrees put their kids in a school and demand certain courses for their kids they’ll get it. DC has the money. My experience with building projects has consistently been that if empowered people with ability to get things done show up for their own self-interest DC will either cater to them in proportion to their numbers.

I’m not going to put myself here but when I send my older kid to MacFarland in a couple years I know that with my engagement and that of other parents they’ll be an Algebra class for my child to join. And follow-on options. I plan to make it happen. Not play the lottery or stay on the sidelines or move to Silver Spring.

You may not do take the plow yourselves but the furrow will be plowed. And soon. [/quote]

Maybe, but from what I've observed over the years, what really works to effect steady change in a DCPS middle school is a strong principal who, for whatever reasons, happens to care about serving neighborhood kids academically.  Not just paying lip service to meeting their needs, but actually meeting them.

We wouldn't have touched Stuart Hobson under the previous head, who left 18 months ago.  From where I sit, the new guy has made more positive changes to draw in neighborhood families during his short stint at the school than the previous head made in the ten years prior.

Sorry, but you can't necessary "make it happen" when your principal isn't on the same page as you are, no matter how willing you are to roll up your sleeves and get to work.[/quote]

THIS.  If the senior admin at school in a gentrifying area isn't a tough-minded star with a vision, forget it.  DCPS won't push or incentivize him or her to work to attract neighborhood families.[/quote]

And if they are great principals with great teachers, then you might just have a gem.[/quote]

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