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[quote=Anonymous]Any efforts to keep DCPS middle schools vibrant will fail if those making decisions don't acknowledge the hard truth that we have vast differences in the preparation, motivation and acheivement levels of students.  Well-prepared, motivated and achieving students need a way to find one another in the same school, not be spread out among schools largely populated by the opposite kind of student.  Both ends of the spectrum need attention, care and focus but not acknowledging that the spectrum exists and is the cause of families not choosing DCPS middle schools is self defeating.  DCPS should establish magnet schools, specialized programs. Academies and the like to find a way to concentrate academically well-prepared  cohorts of kids and give equal or greater funding, attention and quality programming to those who are struggling.  It will be politically painful in the short term but should consolidate support and numbers for the public schools and eventually allow improvements in preparation in elementary schools to make all middle schools less about remediation and bare minimum literacy.

Yes, this is a pipe dream but no problem.  The charter sector will do the same thing but with more negative effects on the DCPS middle schools left behind. [/quote]

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