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[quote=Anonymous]Let's be clear---there is a single, enormous difference between EofthePark and West of the Park when it comes to improving schools.  West of the Park ALWAYS had a majority IB population of high income, highly educated professional parents---both before and after the JKLMM schools "turned around".  So change, when it came---could come quickly.  Plus, the OOB population of the JKLMM was largely comprised of educated and motivated east of the park parents (of all races) who wanted to escape their neighborhood schools.  So you already had an OOB parent population that was at least motivated enough to lottery their kids into west of the park schools.

East of the Park does not have a critical mass of middle class, highly educated parents in any one elementary, high school, or middle school district.  If you gerrymandered solely east of the park---and combined MtP, Capitol Hill, Adams Morgan, Dupont, Logan, Shepard Park, Crestwood and 16th Street Heights together, into 5 elementary schools, 1 middle school and 1 high school---then you might have a chance of keeping higher income East of the Park parents in the DCPS system.  But even then, given the proliferation of charters---such a strategy wouldn't work.  As an East of the Park parent, I would much rather invest my time and money into a charter school with a motivated and responsive faculty/staff---unencumbered by DCPS union strictures---than I would in trying to reverse the provincial attitudes of the teachers and parents in a lot of failing EoftheP schools.  And if I don't get into a charter I like, then I move.  You cannot force middle class parents to send their kids to schools which are majority FARMs.  They just will not do it.  [/quote]

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