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[quote=Anonymous]5:42, it is more problemmatic than that.  Bancroft suffers from the same issues as the recently renovated HD Cooke.  Even if you took every single middle class kid living in a MtP rowhouse and forced them to go to Bancroft, they would still be outnumbered by the number of FARMS students, so the school would continue to focus on serving that population.  Now, that might not be true if 50% of Bancroft was not OOB, but for that to change, you would need middle class neighborhood parents to stay with the school and force the administration to address their  issues, which doesn't seem to happen, as all the neighborhood families I know wind up peeling off.  It's a chicken/egg problem.

Indeed, it also seems---from looking at school and OOB data, that the Latino community in some way self-segregates into schools like Bancroft and Powell---how else to explain schools which are over 50% Latino even when the neighborhood immediately around them is much more racially diverse.  And I also wonder if DCPS is tacitly encouraging this.[/quote]

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