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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It would be different from Banneker because Banneker is a high school, and we're talking about a middle school.  Banneker is also not centrally located.  If you put the specialized track at a place like MacFarland, it could attract kids from all over the city.  The newly-tracked students would certainly not be composed of just "white and asian" kids.  There are plenty of academically competent kids all over the city, but not in large concentrations.  A special program like this would put them in a group of their academic peers, some for the first time.

A certain number of parents who live around Tenleytown might very reasonably elect to send their kids to such a program:  Deal has huge class sizes, and as a whole is simply too big, and also does not really "track" academics very well in terms of advanced classes.  It just has more kids at grade level than anywhere else.  Arguably, a specialized program at MacFarland would offer a more rigorous education than what you get at Deal, with better student-teacher ratios, in an even more diverse environment.[/quote]

Banneker is exactly 1.5 miles south of MacFarland. Both are about 6 blocks north of a metro station. So not really any more/less convenient.

But where would those students go for high school? I agree parents MIGHT send them to MacFarland but they aren't prepared for dual language .... and no way will those parents sign onto Roosevelt. [/quote]

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