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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What do you hope NOT to see in MacFarland as a neighborhood middle school?

I don't want to see the school become a collection of separate programs simply existing under one roof. For instance, one group shunted off into remedial classes, another exclusively attending bilingual classes, and another isolated into some sort of magnet or gifted program. Some here would probably think that sounds great, but without something to bind these groups together, there will be endless conflict. Some very creative thinking will need to be done to develop ways to address a variety of needs and desires while at the same time maintaining a unifying foundation.

Thats interesting. I feel like when my neighbors all get together the ONLY thing that might keep them committed are academic tracks in the school.  Whether thats right or wrong is a bigger discussion. But hands down, the number one complaint about middle schools in DC is that its not rigorous enough. Parents asked for this at Brookland and didnt get it.  [b]McFarland should have a magnet test in in my opinion.  I htink this might be the ONE thing that eveyrone seems to agree on. [/b] The truth is the gentirfying families are just not going to stay if DCPS keeps believing the lie that kids who are two grades apart academicially can all learn in the same class in 6th grade. 
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I hear and read this all the time and it always raises the same question for me:  what are you going to do if your kid doesn't make the cut for the magnet test in?  I'm really dismayed by parents who believe academic success is binary. [/quote]

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