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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What happens at places like Hyattsville Middle is a mystery to me. Schools like Hyattsville Elem and UP Elem are excellent schools with committed parents and dynamic teachers. Middle school comes and those schools feed into Hyattsville middle where kids are smoking weed in 7th grade, kids regularly get beat up, kids are juling in the bathrooms, skipping classes, pregnant, vandalizing yards after school. The list goes on. The parents and community complain to the principal and the school system and nothing is done. This is a year's long known problem. Where is the breakdown?[/quote]

The breakdown?  Other elementary schools besides UP & Hyattsville feed into Hyattsville Middle so the excellence is diluted.  Also, most of my neighbors/friends, including myself, bailed out for privates.[/quote]

Yeah, until you can get a core group of residence of UP and Hyattsville to commit to sending their kids to the school the dilution is just going to get worse.  We have a similar issue with our ES.  The surrounding neighborhood is fairly affluent for PG but the school is Title 1 because a lot of middle class families go with specialty programs or privates rather than give the local school a chance.  About 8 years ago a set a families decided that they were going to commit to sending their kids to the ES and since then more and more families are sending their kids there.

I was in a meeting with Dr Goldson in 2016 and she asked us if we had any suggestions on how to get middle class families to go to our in bounds middle school (Gholdson).  I was pretty frank and said that I can't send my white child into a school where she would be the only white kid in her class or grade.   In lower elementary school, that isn't an issue but in 7th grade it is.  At the time she seemed well aware that middle school was a huge challenge in PGCPS so hopefully that is something she tackles now that she is acting CEO.  
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