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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you want your students peers to be on the same level or higher, then send your kid to Banneker or Walls.

A comprehensive DCPS high school is different. You have choices. [/quote]

Banneker and Walls aren't big enough for all the advanced kids. [/quote]

Sure have DCPS provide enough spots for all the students at these schools.  Until then, you have no right to simply make that blank statement to parents who are at other noon-tracking schools that they have choices because the reality is they don’t.  [/quote]

There are now 4 DCPS application high schools that set the same bars for initial application as SWW and Banneker (3.0 average and 4 or 5 on PARCC).

Banneker, SWW, McKinley and as of next fall, Early College at Coolidge.

McKinley and Banneker had some empty seats last year due to a lack of qualified applicants. [/quote]

Again provide the adequate number of spots (3 schools and even a 4th is far from adequate) and locations in each ward so it’s accessible to all.[/quote]

FFS - the point is anyone who wanted a seat at a school with all students presumably at or above grade level for this current school year COULD HAVE HAD ONE.

They chose other options, which is, of course, their prerogative. But if you take a pass on those other options, where the minimum standards are higher, you don't get to complain that Larla is only in class with students who are at least as prepared as she is. 
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Again you are making an incorrect blank statement.  First even if those few open seats are filled, there is still not enough seats for all the students, not even close.  Secondly, if the school is not accessible to parents because it’s not close to their home or work, then that’s a big obstacle for families.  So provide a tracking school in each ward or 2 wards side by side with enough seats.  But we all know DCPS won’t do this because they don’t care to provide enough opportunity to challenge those who are advanced.  They put all their resources in trying to bring up the bottom at the expense of those at the top.[/quote]

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