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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The reality is that the commute from the Hill to MacArthur is a real drag during rush hour.  The future campus is nowhere near near a Metro stop or a bus route that goes from the Hill.  I live near Union Station but used to work near the future campus, where free parking was available to me.  Many mornings, it took me nearly an hour to get to work through traffic.  Also, Walls is not the safe bet for strong Hill students it once was, now that the entrance exam and PARCC scores have both been dropped in the admissions process. Think twice about a DCPS middle school EotP.  Might be better to move.[/quote]

When was Walls ever a safe bet with waitlist of 100+ kids?[/quote]

Pre Covid, Walls [b]was quite a safe bet for the strongest 8th graders EotP, coming out of both public and private schools. Before Bowser began pressuring DCPS to admit more low-SES minority students from over the River, and to ditch the entrance exam and standardized test scores requirements[/b] (DC-CAS, then PARCC or PSAT or SAT score) the academically able would get in.  I've lived on the Hill for 30 years and saw this phenomenon play out over and over, particularly for teens who were very good at math, regardless of race.  The Walls entrance exams emphasized fairly tough algebra and geometry.  No longer.  Admission to Walls has essentially become a lottery in the last several years.[/quote]

That's a false assumption.  There may have been intent to attract more diverse students to Walls, including from EotP, but the school remains overwhelmingly white and/or higher SES and enrolls an extremely small number of students from EotP.  Dropping the entrance exam had no impact on the demographics[/quote]

Dropping the entrance exam has in fact had a small impact on demographics and a larger impact on rigor.  Now Walls admits plenty of white kids who are B students, along with those of other races. Sad. [/quote]

This-- my DC was admitted to Walls from Deal last year...there was zero correlation between the academic merits of the kids who got in and the kids who didn't. In fact, fewer of the kids in geometry or Algebra 2 got in.  Given the grade inflation, it was a total crap shoot.[/quote]

PARCC scores over the next few years are going to be very telling.  [/quote]

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