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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t live on the Hill but close enough that my prediction or maybe just hope is that Eastern will be look almost like JR in ten years except you could actually lottery in.

I also envision Walls having more students of color, Banneker having more white students and McKinley getting almost as hard to get into as those schools.

Roosevelt, Dunbar and Cardozo will still be chronically low-performing.

What can I say…I’m a mostly optimist who doesn’t want to move to the burbs. [/quote]

I like your optimism.

If Eastern would really throw its shoulder behind the EPIC program and expand it then sure it could become more popular. I have my doubts though. [b]DCPS still does not prioritize the needs of college bound and academically sound students. I don’t really see that changing.[/b] [/quote]

Some of these really terrible schools would get more neighborhood buy-in if they had aggressive tracking.  But the woke warriors who run our schools hate anything that results in white kids mostly being in one class and black kids mostly being in another. [/quote]

At least we aren't SF where they banned algebra in middle school. like straight up banning it. because the silly white parents didn't like seeing the asians in the 'better' class. [/quote]

They're reversing course.

NYT:

The San Francisco school board narrowly approved a plan on Tuesday evening to bring back eighth-grade algebra across all the district’s public schools, 12 years after the system stopped offering it.

The course was removed from middle schools under the rationale that many students — especially those from disadvantaged backgrounds — would benefit from having more time to master foundational math before tackling algebra in high school.

But the plan didn’t work. The number of students enrolled in advanced high school math declined, and wide racial gaps remained. Meanwhile, many parents enrolled their children in summer and after-school math courses to keep them accelerated, often paying out of pocket.

For years, San Francisco “tried to achieve equity not by raising the floor, but by lowering the ceiling,” said Thomas S. Dee, a Stanford University economist who studied the policy with colleagues. “It’s a problem we see nationally,” he added.[/quote]

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