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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]10:58:  You hit the nail squarely on the head!!!!  Time for Henderson to be shown the door.[/quote]

So leave Dunbar "as is"?!?...   b/c they're doing such an outstanding job currently.  :roll: [/quote]

Sadly, Dunbar's current student population is pretty much what's left over after every motivated family has self-selected out. Short of miracles, I'm not sure there's much that the teachers can do at this point. It is the downside of school choice.[/quote]

You do realize that if those motivated families didn't have a choice within DC, large numbers would get out of DC altogether, right? It's not as if Dunbar would be A ok if only there was no school choice.  DC had that scenario already and it was not ok[/quote]

I do know that but the situation is exacerbated by the OOB lottery and intra-district school choice. It is a lot more difficult to physically pick up your life and move to a different district than it is to reassign your child to another school, particularly for families with limited means. Dunbar hasn't been serving the cream of the crop for neigh on 40 years now but school choice has undoubtedly hastened the departure of whatever quality students the school did have.

Policy decisions have consequences. These policy decisions may be rational and may even help improve the overall state of education in the district but every time you change the paradigm you create a new set of winners and losers. Dunbar is a loser in today's world of school choice. [/quote]

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