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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Then maybe[b] we[/b] don't want[b] you[/b] in DCPS.

Believe it or not, most DCPS families don't have the money to move out of the city or switch to some fancy private school when they feel their little munchkin can't go to some[b] private school wannabe[/b]. If you don't want to improve DCPS AS A WHOLE, maybe you shouldn't be involved in it at all.[/quote]
1. who is 'we'? is that the royal 'we'?
2. maybe you're the one who is a misfit with other dcps parents
3. what's wrong with trying to emulate a private school?  careful, your 're looking a little green here
4. those dcps parents who hate the choices offered by dcps can look to the charters....dcps is not the only game in town, for cash-limited families[/quote]

Thanks for the highlights.  This is sounding more like a central office ploy to make parents of kids at Walls and Banneker feel guilty.

Schools that are 90% proficient don't help DCPS numbers overall.[b]  Those kind of kids need to be spread around to bring other schools numbers up a bit.  [/b]  There's no concern for the kids at all.

Here's an idea -- instead of tearing down what's already working,  invest in the remedial services that a lot of kids need,[/quote]

No, they do NOT need to "spread around".  That idea is so offensive you deserve to be kicked in the teeth.  They are not condiments to smeared on the DCPS shit sandwich merely to improve its flavor.

They are actual, single, individual children with a right to enhance their own futures, without the threat of being thrown into the swamp in order to be lifesavers for someone else.

You apparently do not understand this, but generations of parents (middle class - not wealthy, the wealthy will simply go private - middle class) have fled urban centers for decades now in every major city East of the Rockies and proven this point over and over and over again.  They'd rather live in Gaithersburg, or Herndon, Timbuktu than have their children forced into schools they don't like.  And they'll take a bath on their house to do it (red-lining, anyone?).

You can screw your own child all you want (though I hope you get arrested for it) but when you try to screw theirs?  They'll leave.

DC, and DCPS needs more middle-class families, not fewer.  Your proposal is designed and destined to be at odds with that reality.[/quote]

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