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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The pp who mentioned the regional pull of Ellington has a good point. Maryland and Virginia have schools with advanced academic programs but Ellington is unique in the area so of course it attracts OOS students. And they’re below their 10% cap. And probably those OOS students who beat out a DC student for admission were just plain better.  So if you have a problem with this, contact your city government.

~mom of a former white DC Ellington student [/quote]

So this should be the deal:  DC will only admit some MD and VA students to Ellington if VA takes a certain number of DC students into TJ high school and DCstidents get access to MoCo’s top magnet.  Otherwise we’re just suckers.[/quote]

This.  It’s still a head scratcher why DC taxpayers have to subsidize an education for out-of-state students, when DC council members are taking about tax increase because they say that DC needs revenue, including for the schools.  (And then there’s the full subsidy for students who are fraudulently enrolled in Ellington and other DC schools.) [/quote]

+1.

Systemic corruption will only end with a new Mayor who's not part of the local Dem machine.

We've become worse than Chicago.[/quote]

Having a legal policy that you don't like - in this case allowing up to 10% of students who pass the audition from OOS - is not evidence of systemic corruption. There is corruption in DC, but this isn't an instance of it.[/quote]

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