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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Bancroft parent, why are you opposed to sending your child to an EotP middle school? What's wrong with the EotP schools?[/quote]

I am not sure if this is a serious question or just trying to be pedantic, but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt.

Like most parents I care less about "EOTP/WOTP" and more about quality.

To understand why we want to attend Deal, compare Deal to other MSs with regard to:

- academic programming
- test scores
- Great Schools rating, if that's your thing
- levels of preparedness among students when they arrive
- credentials at graduation/readiness for HS 
- sports and other extra-curriculars 
- history of stable and consistent quality
- parental commitment and involvement
- general atmosphere, those intangibles like how much people love their school
- etc

Plus, Deal is a quick, easy drive from our house, and the public transport options are ok too.

Do you really have to ask? There is a reason everyone is fighting to maintain or obtain access to Deal - it is widely regarded as the best DCPS MS in the city.

Could something like Deal be built elsewhere? Maybe, given enough years. And I fully support proposals that ADD OPTIONS as opposed to SUBTRACTING OPPORTUNITIES. So for example, the oft-discussed application-only bilingual MS is a great idea. Locate it EOTP and in time it could start to draw families, of their own free will, who otherwise would go to Deal. I think in our case we'd still choose Deal but I imagine some families will be intrigued by that option and it could relieve some pressure on Deal/Wilson. Maybe even (gasp) some WOTP parents would want to give it a try.

But in the meantime, we want to go to Deal and, more important than our own family's preferences, there are broader moral, political and legal issues with which to contend, which I explained above.

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