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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Re-draw the boundaries for WOTP schools to reduce the number of IB students, actually implement a 20% at-risk set aside for these schools, send all the other OOBs back to their IB and [b]force[/b] other families to use their IB if they are in DCPS.  The at-risk kids would have the right to go through to HS. Anyone who moves OOB can stay through that school year and then has to move to their IB - no principal discretion.

But DCPS/OSSE/the Mayor have no stomach for the hard choices that would benefit at-risk kids and kids IB for non-WOTP schools.  [/quote]

And that is why what you present as an easy peasy solution will fail every time. You can’t force families who have other options to send their children to a failing school. Will never happen. [/quote]

Of course it’s not easy hence “hard choices.”  Part of why these are hard choices is that they will piss people off and many will choose to leave. [b]That’s the price we would pay for a system that better serves more students.[/b] [/quote]

What are you smoking?  The price we would pay in DCPS and DCPC for breaking what's working, in the guise of making necessary "hard choices," is a system that serves far fewer students well, or adequately, period.  We'd be back to the early 2000s, maybe even the 90s, in the ed sector as a city.

Pissing off more UMC parents than have already been pissed off by wrong-headed, year-long Covid shutdowns will achieve nothing for low-income students.  This is a no brainer.[/quote]

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