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[quote=Anonymous]Macarthur parent here:  The fight happened at Dupont Circle, which has historically been the location of fights among students/involving students from various DCPS high schoolers. In this particular instance, a kid/group of kids from Macarthur jumped another kid at Dupont Circle. The following day, supposedly the parents of the victim went to the Dupont Circle stop and retaliated against the kid/kids who were the prior days’ perpetrators.  Of course this was foul all around. The police are investigating.

If you want to send your child to a school that does not have parents who do such things at a bus stop three miles away from the school then definitely this isn’t the school for you (and JR prob isn’t either). I have been impressed (and I say impressed because yes, I did harbor stereotypes) by how much these so called low SES parents care about their kids and their kids’ education and that comes across IN THE SCHOOL. Remember, in a great many instances  kids who don’t live in the MacArthur boundary have adults in their lives who MADE THE CHOICE to send their kids to Hardy or to enter the lottery to go to Macarthur and sacrifice by having their kids endure sometimes 2 hour commutes to get a better education than their in-boundary school. I want to be in a school like that.

The administration can’t control what’s happening at a bus stop three miles away but even so are working hard to address the issues at Dupont Circle which are in fact out of their control.

The teachers at Macarthur are fantastic and dedicated. The administration is professional and extremely adept at managing constituents with various concerns—from the 9th grader who may have an ankle monitor  to the parent wondering about which Ivy will be visiting the school in the fall, to the neighborhood rep worrying about the school’s fence encroaching on neighbors’ lawns. Our kid is thriving and I encourage others to visit in person or contact parents at the school.

PS a kid left Mac the first week of school to go back to JR and returned a week later, regretting the decision.  That spoke volumes. [/quote]

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