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[quote=Anonymous]I say just stop over-intake into Ward 3 and focus on the schools east of there. The gentrifier schools. Make them gentrifier friendly. They have students from all over when they could be another version of the Ward 3 schools if the city just made them little islands for Ward 1 and 4 gentrifier parents. So put a honors test in academy at Roosevelt. Make it harder than JR. Recruit through testing. Once that’s five years in place, make the program more flexible/less didconnected from the existing comprehensive school.

Watch it become much more desirable and less a school of last resort. Then eventually we will have a more flexible school system with MacArthur, Roosevelt, JR and Coolidge as places for mixed application and non application programs and overall better achievement. But it will come at the cost of inequitably catering to the whims of the gentrifier over the needs of the poor first. But integration is important to resolving the rhe needs of the poor in DC.

I say this having thought of many more just sounding ways to do it. But you have to induce these high income parents to send kids to a low income school before it will ever integrate, they will not volunteer and will move/choose to avoid schools of last resort. Someday a more just America will call this a shame but I think we need better in our lifetime rather than waiting for the best to happen by magic. [/quote]

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