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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Mainly in the Takoma, Brightwood, Brightwood Park, Petworth and Fort Totten neighbohoods. Where do folks send their 10, 11 and 12 year olds? We are in a feeder for MacFarland and want to take a hard pass on  it.

Currently in the 3rd grade and hope to "win" the lottery for a feeder with a decent MS.

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Why won't you give McFarland a chance to mature before you "hard pass".  You are very lucky to have a center feeder.  [/quote]

We think the English-only path won't be supported or as rigorous as the Spanish track. [/quote]

Greetings!  I am the 8th grade ELA teacher at MacFarland.  I strongly encourage you learn more about the academic programs we offer before jumping to conclusions about the academic programs we offer.  [/quote]

Ha!  The sentence I wrote is a mess!  Not a good look for the ELA teacher, but you get my point.  Please take the time to learn about our school community. [/quote]

We can see your demographics for ourselves, and we know that the achievement gap isn't a gap, it's a chasm.  We also know that MacFarland doesn't offer a test-in program for students who work at or above grade level.

Sadly, you can market your school cheerfully without being able to offer us what we're looking for.  [/quote]

NP. So demographics is destiny, end of story? :roll: The ELA teacher asked you to look at their academic program offerings. Where is there a test-in program in DCPS for MS anywhere?[/quote]

For us, yes.  Call us realists, or trolls, that's the name of that tune. Academic offerings are meaningless to us without a cohort of UMC peers who are strong students.  We're happy for poor kids to be in class with ours, indeed we prefer to have them, as long as they work at or above grade level in every subject.

Stuart Hobson doesn't permit students who don't work at grade level into their honors classes.  That's as close to as a test-in program as we can find.  If we don't get into Washington Latin at the end of the month, we will move on from Tyler SI to SH for middle school because we're in-boundary and can find the peer group we're looking for there. We plan to use a MoCo Spanish program on weekends and hire Spanish tutors. SH Hobson principal will permit us to home school in advanced Spanish with other Tyler families who won't go on to MacFarland. Not too bad. [/quote]

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