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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]

Sorry that you wasted a lot of anger on this.  The "spread around" comment was meant to express the DCPS attitude about kids  who score proficient.  Having them concentrated in a few schools helps the kids, but doesn't help proficiency across the schools, thus doesn't bring individual school scores up, which seems to be all DCPS cares about - witness its desire to cover-up the cheating scandal.  [/quote]

You can't "spread around" strong students as if they were pawns in a chess game.  If DCPS went that route (or continues to go that route) then you'll stick with about 12,000 of the 42,000 students being on grade level – and they will tend to congregate west of the park – leaving the rest of the city fallow.  If you created selective admission schools and concentrated strong students in neighborhoods where they live then you'd increase the overall strength of the system and struggling students would benefit.

Keep in mind the higher a school’s proficiency, the less money it takes to operate.

I challenge you to find one parent that would select a 25% proficient school over a 75% proficient school.  Even parents of struggling students want their children surrounded by lots of smart kids - it stretches them up.

As a parent I don’t view my child’s primary role as a vehicle to fix a struggling school system – I have one chance to get it right and come hell or high water I will make it happen.  If I can help improve the system and simultaneously provide my children with solid education, then sign me up and  let’s get cracking ‘cause we got work to do.
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