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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm basically new to DC too, and I will say what no one else is saying.  It's only a crisis now because non-AA children are being impacted.  I could be wrong, but the bad schools have always been bad, it's just now people care because non-AA kids are now in what use to be predominately AA neighborhoods.[/quote]

I disagree. It's a crisis because high SES children of all hues are being impacted. In the past, many high SES AA families used WOTP schools as an escape valve for pent up demand for high quality schools. Now that WOTP schools are filled with neighborhood kids and charters are increasingly difficult to get into, high SES families across the color spectrum are declaring it a crisis. They want to stay in the city and see their palatable options dwindling. [/quote]

^^I should add that poor AA kids have pretty much always gotten the shaft under DCPS.[/quote]

NP.  I totally agree with the above post.  I am a native Washingtonian and product of DCPS - Tubman/Hearst, Deal, Banneker.  My IB elementary was Tubman and it was definitely not meeting my needs.  I escaped, as a OOB student, to Hearst and then went to to Deal and Banneker.  So I definitely agree that the problems with schools EOTP are not new for AA families.  The solution for some AA families was the OOB option - it was simple (one form) and we had our pick of the schools.  However, the OOB pipeline began to tighten when IB families returned to the IB schools and it's been getting worse culminating into what we have today, which is everyone trying to squeeze into to Deal and ultimately Wilson.

In my opinion, there are two choices - move to upper NW/privates/charters/suburbs or stay and work with DCPS to build up your neighborhood school.  Either way, I realize that the problems with DC's public schools are hard, systemic, and will take dedication, honesty and commitment from all stakeholders (parents, politicians, school administrators, educators) to fix. [/quote]

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