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[quote=Anonymous]Stop the destruction of the [b]only nationally ranked school in DC[/b] - School Without Walls.  Give them their own principal, and don't have it be the bird brain who isn't even fit to run Francis Stevens - Trogisch sp?  Who wanted the 11th graders to walk over and have courses at the elementary school!  You know what?  I know the kids tend to be pretty good, and they had a total right to complain, but there is another side here.

As the parent of an elementary school girl, I would feel completely uncomfortable with having 11th grade boys in the building.  There is a reason for elementary schools, middle schools, and high schools, and even when they happen to be close together, there is a reason for zoning.

I say this with no child thinking of going to Walls or Francis Stevens - just dismay at the way DCPS seems to dismantle things that work.

They can have a selective admissions high school, but no selective admissions middle school that adequately educates those kids beforehand except for Deal, BASIS, and Latin.

Same is true for kids going to Banneker or McKinley Tech.  What about a STEM oriented decent selective admissions middle school?  A lot of people defend Banneker's poor college admissions by stating that by the time they get there, it is too late for the kids to catch up.  And this another one of our flagship schools.

I agree.  Pay attention to the smart, the well behaved, the kids motivated to learn, and separate out the troublemakers before they completely disrupt the ability of [/b]every other single child in the class to learn.[b][/quote]

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