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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oh for goodness sake. Who mentioned SES? Trying to find a way to concentrate well -prepared students in one middle school is not offensive. It is smart.  Hopefully Ludlow Taylor, Payne, JO Wilson and Tyler would also be feeding there. Think outside your box please[/quote]

So by "concentrat(ing) well prepared students in one middle school" you are doing what then?  Leaving all the rest of the kids to languish in their crappy schools?  Is that the point?

And you don't need to mention SES.  I think it's pretty obvious what's going on here.  [/quote]

Just to add if it's just about "well prepared" students, then why add SWS?  What measure is she using to be so sure they are "well prepared"?  Are the kids there even old enough to have been taking the DC CAS yet?

So please, give me a break.[/quote]

SWS demographics are virtually identical to Brent and its been sucessful while only entering mandatory test grade 3 this year.  If we based success solely on DC CAS then Ludlow Taylor is among the best elementary on the Hill.  That's a separate debate, but many others would disagree with that conclusion.

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So on what are you basing your assertion that SWS is a successful school?  On what you basing your assertion that LT is not a successful school?[/quote]

if you go by DC CAS scores alone you are missing most of the picture.  The fact that SWS hasn't taken thetest doesn't validate or disprove anything.  If you knew the faculty, staff, students and  school community well you'd understand why it's lumped with the other successful Hill ES.    I'm not biting on your weak bait, but if I was making the proposal Elissa Silverman did I would have included LT along with the others.  I also don't think her proposal will ever go anywhere even if she gains office.[/quote]

So in other words, you don't have criteria for "successful" schools.  Just that you "know the community."  Interesting.  [/quote]

It seems some people in our midst prefer to bicker and impune their neighbors than to open wide the discussion of how to improve public middle school participation in ward 6.  Way to go. Way to shut people down and make sure nothing ever changes. What are you trying to accomplish exactly?  [/quote]
Yup, just go to a charter and let the omniscient ones fix DCPS.  Save your elbow grease for your kid, it ain't worth fighting the race-baiters, judgmental dinosaur liberals and short-sighted know-it-alls.[/quote]

You don't find it even a little bit questionable that a political candidate would suggest plucking the only schools with any considerable percentage of white kids out of Ward 6 and sending them to their own middle school?   Schools that are not otherwise in proximity to each other?

Well, okay then.

That's not about shutting people down.  That's about saying, "WTF?"

I don't think anyone would argue that the middle school situation on Capitol Hill is a good one.  No one in this thread is arguing that nothing should change, but nice straw man.  But if Elissa Silverman is really trying to create a middle school for high SES white kids on the Hill, sorry, you can count me out of that kind of "change".  Not to mention that there's simply not a snowball's chance in hell of that happening, so it basically comes down to political pandering at its worst.

I really need to stop reading these Capitol Hill threads because they depress the hell out of me.[/quote]

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