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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Also, in case you've forgotten, Jackson Reed isn't selective at all.  It's just white.  [/quote]

The excellent neighborhood schools in the suburbs aren't selective either; anyone who can afford the expensive houses in their districts can attend. Like Jackson-Reed. It's no secret that students from rich families do better on average. [/quote]

Jackson Reed isn’t “white” and neither are the high performing schools in the suburbs around here. Feel free to put your money where your mouth is and send your kid to Dunbar though. [/quote]

It's quite a bit whiter than McKinley Tech at this point.  Which was the point.[/quote]

The point is that it has more kids who are college-bound and the instruction is accordingly more at a college-bound level. It’s just ignorace and denial to claim otherwise. If you don’t care about your kid having more rigorous instruction that is completely valid - some kids don’t need it and can catch up in college. But nobody on DCUM should enroll their kid in McKinley believing that the academics will be as good as at a school with a bigger grade level/advanced cohort. Some families are fine with this. I am not. [/quote]

I don't think Jackson Reed is some silver bullet I want to subject my child to, but even if I did, everyone doesn't have access to Jackson Reed. Period.

Why are so many people on this thread who have no first hand knowledge of McKinley Tech HS anyway? Oh because that is DCUM's claim to fame.[/quote]

I may not have a kid at McKinley but I’ve been in DCPS and witnessed the cycle of disillusionment enough times to have realized that for our family, rationalizations like “your kid is so privileged they will do fine anywhere” do not hold water. Also, I know kids enrolled in really good public schools and see that  the cohort of grade-level and advanced students actually does matter. [/quote]

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