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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Most upper income families in good DC school paths do NOT leave DCPS at 3rd grade, this is a pattern that ended a few years back.  Our 5th grader is going to Deal next year along with over 90% of her elementary school cohort and I fully expect her to go to Wilson or an application school for high school.

I realize that this is not an option for the majority of the city and that is the problem.  But the generalization or "broad brush" that was made in this thread that most UMC families leave at 3rd is simply incorrect for those families that are lucky (or resourceful) enough to have good public options.  There simply are not enough such options and there is a lack of will to make the hard decisions that would create more high quality secondary schools but also offend large politically powerful constituencies in the city. Is there a way to bring together the many successful elementary school cohorts into another successful middle school?  Absolutely, but it means you are making decisions to exclude feeder elementary schools based on their level of success and that will be perceived as racist so it will never happen.

Higher levels of resources in DC are being directed at high poverty/high minority schools.  Strong schools leaders are being deployed.  This is a really tough nut to crack, but DC will not lose in court due to lack of honest effort.[/quote]

This deck may be helpful. Among other things it shows DC population growth among children by race and age. There is still a significant ex-migration among families with kids in the 8-14 year old range -- and those families are not all white.

http://dme.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/dme/publication/attachments/Office%20of%20Planning%20Presentation%20for%20CSCTF%204%2026%2016.pdf[/quote]

Fascinating deck, thanks!![/quote]

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