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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You would need to close 2 or 3 Hill DCPS elementary schools to get where you want to go - not just LT but Payne and/or Miner!!

Everybody's just dreamin' on this thread.  Until the Mayor goes, the Chancellor goes, and Wells goes, the LT District parents have as much chance as feeding into SWS as into Janney.   And none of us has any chance of feeding into a stellar middle school program.  Plan accordingly because time and demographics won't fix these problems.
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[b]underenrolled?  you're mistaken -- the schools are enrolled, but some with significant out of bound populations -- notice only only 1 Ward 6 school hit by closures  and it's a special needs school. The % of oob students is a worthless stat tossed around freely by skeptics.  Some of the OOB are students with proximity fwiw.   [/b]Look at the IB by GRADE and you'll see the % pretty low for EC and early ES and increases with grade level.  The better Hill schools are retaining these students until they jump ship for MS.

There is absolutely no problem with enrolling Hill families -- it's retaining them where DCPS fails[/quote]

So you want to close schools that are not under-enrolled, because you don't want the poor black children in your schools, and that's the method you'd like to use to do it - by kicking them out of schools that are [i]not under-enrolled[/i].  "No poor black children here!  Welcome wealthy (white families) to our all-wealthy schools.  We have cleansed them, and you can feel safe here now!"

My God - the cartoonists are going to have a field day with you.  Picture the buses of little black children being sent back whence they came.  Oh yes they will!  And on the next page, someone will draw four little black girls in white dresses, trying to enter a Hill school, with firehouses in the background and someone planting a bomb.  Drawings of men in white hoods, storming past the Emancipation Memorial in Lincoln Park.

Expressing support for such a plan will crucify any candidate or public employee who took it seriously, and deservedly so.

If you want to alter the balance of your schools, you're going to have to do it by attracting higher SES people in, not by kicking other, lower SES people out.  [/quote]
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I never said LT or any school should be closed and I'm puzzled how you'd reach that conclusion based on what you've highlighted from my post. IB families  want nothing to do with LT but aparently others do.  I simply said it's not an "underenrolled" school.  That is not a value judgement or an acknowledgement of where those enrollees come from.

I think you highlighted the wrong post, but you only posted that to troll this top anyway, right? [/quote]

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