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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not the PP you're responding to, but why are you in denial that DCPS is a low-capacity outfit? They could have done the planning and legwork to launch MacArthur to appeal to in-boundary residents from the get-go.  My sibling's children go to Dorothy Hamm MS in Arlington, which opened several years ago.  I'm told that, from Day 1, the school was almost entirely in-boundary, with 800 out of 1000 spots filled over the summer with students from a heavily UMC catchment area. Figure it out DCPS.

We don't need you here gaslighting and serving as an apologist for DCPS, PP.  Why do you lack critical and analytical thinking skills?[/quote]

The primary goal of MaArthur was not to offload JR.  That was really secondary.  The primary goal was to have another school WOTP for OOB kids can have access and feed to (siblings).   So no need to do anything to attract majority IB parents.  IB families will be forced to go there soon enough.

Goal accomplished.[/quote]

If this were true, wouldn't they have selected a more accessible location for the school?[/quote]

They didn't select a location. Bowser did a favor for her developer/GDS friends, and then had a building to come up with a purpose for.

The building is more accessible for OOB than IB. For real. That does align with DCPS goals.
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I'd put it all a little differently: MacArthur exists to provide more seats, IB or OOB, so the OOB students at JR don't get pushed out.[/quote]
I wonder if they opened a new high school up EOTP, if there would be demand. They need one if you’re just looking at a population density map! [/quote]

Surely you're not this dense, right?  Can you think of any reasons why parents seek to send students WOTP for a better education?  Any reason at all that parents of all ethnicities would do that?  Hint: the reason is not lack of schools EOTP it's lack of good schools EOTP.  The magnet schools certainly fit the description but only admit a small percentage of the students who apply and who is admitted is based on completely subjective rubrics.  IE, test scores do not play a role. It's hard to count on getting into these schools, so parents seek a guaranteed pathway to a good high school.
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In theory, you have the demographic mix EOTP to have a great high school, the question is if you opened one (say on the new NIH campus) would you have the demand, if not why not, and how could you induce it? MacArthur seems like a bet on geography (and keeping JR as an OOB moonshot for kids EOTP). But DC can’t just keep putting a band aid on the middle school and high school problem.[/quote]

DC tried this with Brookland Middle School.  It failed miserably.  They are not likely to go with this tactic again for quite some time.[/quote]

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