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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just sounds like an anxious parent of an eighth grader trying trying to figure out what to tell her kid to help him get ready for the essay test. Maybe grab a little intel from DCUM or crowdsource a halfway decent guess. [/quote]

Nope. Just a DCPS parent sick and tired of watching DC destroy the few good schools we have in the name of equity. [/quote]

This comment has a lot of racist undertones but how about you just not send your kid to Walls if you think it’s been ‘destroyed.’  [/quote]

There was a quote in the Washington Informer article from a Ward 8 dad saying the same thing. Like it or not, by HS, any competent educational system needs to provide HS programs reserved for the highly motivated college bound kids. Getting rid of those programs in the name of equity is educational malpractice. [/quote]

Walls is still reserved for highly motivated college bound kids. There are just more kids meeting that description in DC than there used to be, and no practical way to expand Walls, so they can’t all go. [/quote]

Of course there is a practical way to expand Walls or increase admissions to other selective schools like McKinley. In case you didn’t notice, DC is perfectly happy to contemplate completely dismantling two schools to achieve bare demographic goals. The issue is that it is not “allowed” in DC to prioritize academic merit. [/quote]

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