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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]10:33, that is an excellent point.  The neighborhood does not match the demographics of the school.  I guess that may be a warning sign.  How is Oyster compared to Bancroft? I hear Oyster has a stellar program so why isin't Bancroft incorporating what Oyster does? [/quote]

Perhaps because Bancroft can't incorporate 20 years of history in Cleveland Park/Woodley Park?

I know that sounds snarky, the point is that it just isn't that simple.  First of all it's a DCPS school, not a charter.  It's not like they get to make independent programmatic, curricular, or staffing decisions.  Second of all, and equally large, is the cultural inertia of what's already there.  By way of example I offer the cluster schools on the Hill and Brent and Maury.  There's actually a critical mass of middle and upper-middle class parents on the Hill who would be happy to have their elementary students feed into a quality MS program.  However, the DCPS philosophy is apparently that these students need to be spread around, so that they can be used as good little examples in the poor performing classrooms, to raise a school's scores and teach its students how to behave.

Schools like Mundo Verde get to start fresh.[/quote]

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