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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oh for goodness sake. Who mentioned SES? Trying to find a way to concentrate well -prepared students in one middle school is not offensive. It is smart.  Hopefully Ludlow Taylor, Payne, JO Wilson and Tyler would also be feeding there. Think outside your box please[/quote]

So by "concentrat(ing) well prepared students in one middle school" you are doing what then?  Leaving all the rest of the kids to languish in their crappy schools?  Is that the point?

And you don't need to mention SES.  I think it's pretty obvious what's going on here.  [/quote]

No actually. The idea would be to create a large middle school that served all the elementary schools.  It seem that in DC larger means more funding which means a middle school could have more bells and whistles including robust remedial as well as advanced course work and a wide variety of extra-curricular activities and support services that are key to middle schoolers enjoying their experience and testing out their interests and talents.

In the current set-up that this pp seems to favor, the well-prepared, academically ambitious students ( of all races and SES backgrounds ) decide that if they are in the distinct minority at a certain school, then they had better find a school where they won't be. Believe me, this sentiment is even stronger with African American parents than it is with white parents.  And so, children are left to languish in their "crappy schools" as you say.  Trying to sprinkle academically strong students around to different middle schools has never worked and it never will. [/quote]

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