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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All Spanish track students on the waitlist (45) will not get in this year, there is not space for them. There will be more waitlisted students as the feeders complete their growth.

I’m not anxious or worried. I have a child at a Spanish feeder and I would like to understand what middle school language options they will have. Can charter school students lottery in to the Spanish programs at DCPS middle schools? Do they just have to put Macfarland or CHEC on the lottery list or is there a separate process to get in the language track? [/quote]

The real answer is that MacFarland and CHEC are so weak that you don’t need to bother with a formal process. List them in the lottery then tell them you want the Spanish track. Then panic when you simultaneously hear the stories your sixth grader comes home with and realize they aren’t learning a thing. And if you think things will miraculously change in the few years you have until middle school, go talk to the people on the Hill arguing about middle schools.

MacFarland bilingual school graduate family who did not continue to MacFarland for the reasons above.[/quote]

This is one of the funniest but also saddest responses I’ve heard on this forum in a long time. It should be mandatory reading for all people considering middle school in dc. [/quote]

Honestly what's crazy to me is the the Hill still doesn't have a viable high school equivalent to JR, although it's been gentrified and home to families for decades, longer than the upper NW. I am sure there is a history there, and I am hoping someone here can link out to a nice detailed article about it (or book!)...
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First step to a viable HS is high quality MS feeders. The feeder pattern on the Hill and NoMa divides high performing cohorts into 3 different MS. This was DC at its most DC. The optics of having multiple gentrifying MS feed into the same MS was deemed offensive. The result was not to create 3 good MS that in turn would feed the HS. It was to encourage MS families to flee for charters or other MS options (that also came with HS paths). [/quote]

Yes - a Deal-like middle school on cap hill is a political non-starter. The equity folks would howl and not (entirely) unjustifiably so. [/quote]

I mean, how unfair and inequitable would it be for there to be a MS on the Hill that provided a quality education to all of its students? We can't have that. We'll just ignore the more than 50% of the kids who will be POC and the 30% who will be ED that will benefit from a quality MS. Because the SJW don't care about those kids. [/quote]

Right - if too many of the “wrong” folks (ie, white folks) are benefitting, it can’t happen. [/quote]

Kind of like America writ large; we can’t have social programs that would help everyone because too many of the “wrong” people will benefit too. [/quote]

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