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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^ You blame the Van Ness organizer parents for being turf conscious when most don't have a lot of choice if they want to stay in the city.  Other big US cities--Chicago, Boston, Miami, NYC--run a variety of programs and offerings for advanced/gifted learners.  Even DC charter offers better options for advanced learners, e.g. the best language immersion programs and extensive math tracking at BASIS.  DCPS offers no such programs, leaving upper middle income parents with little choice but to fight to keep the schools they get involved in from becoming majority low SES.  The city generally leaves it up to parent organizations to raise funds to pay for support staff to run pullout groups for advanced learners.  Future Van Ness parents can't close the achievement gap in SW, but they may be able to support the opening of a viable school for their own children and a good many low SES kids, too.  Give em a break.

Agreed.  we all want good schools city wide but at the end of the day, as a parent, I have to fight the hardest to to whats best for my kid.  I don't live in this area but I do't blame any parent for trying to maintain an appropriate balance of high to low SES in order to facilitate learning at the school and mitigate behavioral issues.   the overwhelming majority of kids in SW and at Amidon live in low income housing, if you move them to Van Ness then you bascially lose the need to even keep Amidon open.   There are no row houses proposed in SW, all multifamily. Some of the units might be 2 or 3 bedroom but those will be in public housing.

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