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[quote=Anonymous]"I think the question to be asked is what people consider to be "good" schools vs "bad" schools. Is it the kids? The teachers and staff? Administration? Performance on standardized tests? SES of the student population? It's a subjective opinion as to what makes a school good or bad. Are we all talking about the same things when we say "good" schools or "bad" schools? I would be very interested in hearing peoples' opinions on this."

Agree. We know which schools we are discussing but not what the problem is. If the issue is teachers then work to switch the union contract to pay more qualified teachers more for working in those schools. But I think it is most likely the challenge of having too many needy kids in one spot - so that the problem is the need to "dilute" the neediness basically. Busing some to better schools will not really help ship the situation in that school. The Blair magnet model seems to be pretty successful. You could further help that by giving extra chances to DCC families to qualify as compared to now when it pulls from the whole county. I think programs with a school can be a good model to keep the many middle class families in the DCC attending the local school which helps with providing some degree of positive peer group and middle class families to help support the school and PTA. If you just figure you plan to give up on the middle class neighborhoods that largely surround Kennedy for instance rather than figure out how to address their concerns to entice them back to the school then you cannot fix it.

I agree with another poster that tracking needs to be part of this. That is just the reality. [/quote]

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