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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There's this conspiracy theorist idea permeating this thread that somehow "DCPS" or "DC" are conspiring to keep quality MS education away from Capitol Hill. No one who understands how decisions in government or at DCPS are made would ever allege such a thing. I know a lot of us (me too, btw) are not getting what we want. And that for many of us this is the first time in our privileged lives we can't argue for or leverage relationships to get our desired outcome. But how self centered and entitled are we therefore conclude it must be an intentional conspiracy? Plus, apparently the conspirators are doing the bidding of poor people and the underserved, because that's something that actually happens...anywhere.
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Hardly a conspiracy theory: reality. DCPS could have changed the Hill ES feed arrangements during the 2013-2014 boundary review to create a high-performing pan Ward 6 MS.  There was, and is, widespread support for the initiative at the grassroots across on CH, just not on the part of the ed powers that be and their parent shills in the Cluster school community.  DCPS could also have introduced a full complement of not just "honors" classes, but GT programming in this new MS, and/or created at least one test-in MS program in the District. Other US cities have one or more test-in middle school programs, e.g. Boston, NYC and our near neighbors in MoCo and Fairfax.  Michelle Rhee used to speak of her plans to add MS GT testing and programming.  But she and Fenty went down too early for GT to launch.

Privileged lives, entitled? Speak for yourself. I grew up in a rural area, read a lot, took math classes I paid for at a community college, went to an Ivy on a Full Pell Grant. [/quote]

You need to get together with the other conspiracy theorists and decide who your boogeyman is. Most of your foil hat buddies seem to think Rhee and Fenty were the masterminds behind undermining schools on the CH. Now here you come into the mix claiming they were going to fix it and it was the boundary review or 2013 that perpetuated the conspiracy. I'm so confused!

The point you seem unable to grasp is that decisions were made because people in power have to make decisions. They may have been the best decisions at the time based on available info and projections or they may have been terrible decisions. Even assuming every decision was wrong and there were no justifications for them, it does not mean it was a conspiracy. Sometimes people make decisions that don't work out. Jack Welsh wasn't trying to destroy GE. Time Warner wasn't conspiring to destroy shareholder value when it overpaid for AOL. John McCain wasn't trying to upend democracy and the Republican party when he chose Sarah Palin as his running mate. Decisions can have bad outcomes without having been made with malintent.  [/quote]

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