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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Except the dc charter schools don't actually have honors classes.  If families become open to not just walls but also banneker and mckinley, the odds of a relatively high-achieving child who attended a dcps middle school not having any good high school options other than eastern seems very minimal.[/quote]

As a DCPS parent open to both Banneker and McKinley, the entire admissions process is so poorly managed and carries such uncertainty that it gives me pause, not just for HS applications but as a vote of no confidence for DCPS leadership despite having positive ES and MS experiences.  Banneker fails to offer interviews with qualified candidates even as they fall well short of matching their offered lottery seats.  McKinley has to fill a fair number of its seats with clearly unqualified candidates.  Walls offers deep into its waitlist because they offer to many kids uninterested in attending and they're happy to count on shear volume of qualified applicants to fill seats.  The whole process is deeply flawed, and no one has an even passable by right HS unless in the Wilson boundary.  Eastern is never going to be Wilson.  Granted they have a phenomenal marching band, but its a chaotic poorly managed school where it matters.  There's a theme here.[/quote]

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