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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm optimistic. DCI attracted lots of UMC families from their feeder schools. Macarthur attracted the Jackson-Reed-bound kids. UMC families are obviously not what makes a school great, but it certainly is easier to run a school when you've got a solid cadre of families whose lives and incomes aren't in too much flux, and who are already addressing some of their kids' learning issues. [/quote]

MC and UMC kids might not make a school great but they’re the only thing keeping a school from being a pit.[/quote]

There are some very successful schools that are primarily low income (like DC Prep, the other charters that exceed expectations and send many of their graduates to college). But it seems like DCPS can rarely pull off a good school unless there is buy in from "professional class" parents. When they do, it's because of a visionary principal, not because of the school district.[/quote]

And add to that -- I heard someone in the neighborhood make a wish for a Euclid Principal -- Brigham Kiplinger, the Garrison principal who turned that school into what it is today.[/quote]

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