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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why isn't there  a Deal MS for Capitol Hill?[/quote]

Because there aren't a couple hundred stable, highly-educated, wealthy families with kids scoring 4s and 5s on PARCC sending their kids to Eliot-Hine, Stuart-Hobson, or Jefferson each year. [/quote]

Jefferson had a successful, invitation only program long before gentrifiers showed up.  [/quote]

Agreed. Shaw had something similar. But with DCPS no longer offering any sort of middle school magnet programs, the reason that no school in Capitol Hill has the size or test scores of Deal is related to the fact that there are not enough kids scoring 4s and 5s on the 4th and 5th grade PARCC going to Eliot-Hine, Stuart-Hobson, or Jefferson. [b]If more did go, the test scores at those middle schools would increase.[/b][/quote]

Yes, OK, and what's the relevance of this statement when obviously the great majority of UMC CH parents (now the majority by a long shot) would rather move, go private, or go charter to BASIS or Washington Latin than enroll at EH, SH or JA?

The only way to change this would be for DCPS to incentivize CH parents to enroll in neighborhood middle schools by offering test-in honors classes across the board (in every academic subject) at all three schools.  DCPS refuses year after year, so nothing changes.

Most CH parents of upper grades elementary students plan to move from the neighborhood, go private, hope for good lottery numbers at Washington Latin and/or BASIS, and wait for Washington Latin's second campus to open next year as Plan B.  The politicians, including Charles Allen, could care less.  That's it, that's all.

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Well, the PP asked why CH doesn't have a school like Deal. The answer is because the IB families with high-scoring students aren't sending their kids there.

PP didn't ask what should be done to make CH have a school like Deal. The answer to that is "convince IB families with high-scoring students to send their kids there." You might think test-in honors classes are the way to make that happen. Could be. Might be other ways too.[/quote]

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