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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The frustrating part about this process for me is that it seems to have revealed that DCPS doesn’t care about academic excellence.
You create programs for the top 10% of students not because your kid will necessarily BE one of those kids, but because a good way to bring the whole school up is to attract and retain very smart kids.  Those kids help attract good teachers and attract aspirational families to move inbounds.

If the city can’t create a good middle school option for Seaton and Garrison that has programs for all kids including the top students, DCPS will lose the opportunity to build an amazing school program in Shaw.  They have at the elementary level the principals, the buildings, and enough families for positive momentum.  If they don’t create a good middle school they’re just lighting on fire all that elementary school potential.  Would be a huge missed opportunity.

(Note I think Banneker is a huge success story and needs to be considered strongly in any Shaw MS plan.)[/quote]

DCPS cares about academic success, but I do agree that the struggle with meeting the needs of very bright kids,  but in a city where most kids in the system cannot read and write at grade trying to get them to put more  resources, money or brains, to the top 5 percent of kids seems like a big ask, but I agree that they need to do more of it in neighborhood schools. Not sure if it would have a measurable impact on upper class buy in you predict through.  If they offered  advanced calculus and advanced latin at Cardozo MS would you send your kid there?  I might, if enough of his like minded friends were going... [/quote]

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