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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why not? [/quote]

The demographics are not there.  There is no critical mass of Hill families sufficient to fill an MS.  Hence, the only path to a high-performing MS is a city-wide solution but G&T programs will not be implemented by DCPS, because the optics would be politically challenging (there would be too many white & asian kids).  Ergo, the only way to do it is for charters to come in that are challenging enough, such that anyone who is not academically high-performing will drop out.  Latin, Basis, DCI...  but nothing from DCPS.  [/quote]

I don't disbelieve you, but I don't understand DCPS enough to get why this is true. If the early grades at the Cluster, Brent, SWS, Maury, Miner, Ludlow-Taylor, Tyler, Logan, JO Wilson, even Payne (what else am I forgetting?) are totally maxed out, doesn't that mean that those kids would stay through middle school if there were a good option on the Hill? Speaking only for my family, we would love, love, love to keep our kids in public school on the Hill all the way through high school. (We are all set through 5th grade, and our kids will definitely stay at our current school through then.) Shouldn't DCPS take a bit of a risk and create a great neighborhood middle school that would serve all those students? Most of those schools can't feed into S-H because it is overfull. [/quote]

The only numbers that show anything are whether or not the first grade classrooms are maxed out, because many families use DCPS as a place to put their kids before private and parochial, which don't have all day ps3 and pk4 and often redshirt 5 year olds, too. If the first grade classrooms at the abovementioned schools are majority middle-high SES, then there's a chance that the current crop of infants might have a chance at a decent Hill MS. It takes a long time to gain enough buy-in from families who are gambling with their 3rd, 4th, 5th graders' (and up) education. [/quote]

I notice you're moving the goalposts. You claimed that there were not enough high-SES students on the Hill to fill a middle-school. Now you're essentially arguing that high-SES students don't stay in the ES' long enough to get to middle-school. The obvious reason for this is that there's no viable middle-school option. Either circular or disingenuous. Tutt tutt.[/quote]

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