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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You can't fix under enrollment at Brookland so long as it feeds to Dunbar.

It's a sysiphean task.

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It is a huge task but it can work.  Stuart-Hobson feeds to Eastern but parents have [b]made a lot of progress there in the last 20 years.[/b][/quote]

The key phrase is 20 years. I would imagine OP has a child who is already born, and will need a MS option she's confident in sooner than that.[/quote]

I'm the OP, and have a K child.  I don't think it would take 20 years to fill up the building.  I think if they offer an IB program, there would be increased demand next year.  Look at the incredible demand for charters that offer desirable programming.  Many of them have no track record, and terrible facilities.  And yet the people flock to them.  This isn't that hard.[/quote]

And yet apparently it is.  Charters have been stealing students from DCPS for over 10 years and are almost at 50%.  DCPS gave up on MS a few years ago.  Now the only solution is a new building and lacrosse.   Higher SES parents are supposed to be fooled that it makes up for something consequential like dual language or higher-level math.  Most such parents didn't find their way into that status by being easily duped.

The sooner your realize that high-achieving (even average) students are not a priority for DCPS, the sooner you will save your child a year of falling behind.  As long as less than 50% of DCPS students can read and write and do math at grade level the sooner you will understand the basic calculus.  That shiny new building is just a way to entice the low-performing students into even coming to school at all.  It's not an achievement-oriented or aspirational setting.  It's about decreasing truancy and trying to get 13 year olds to still try to read.[/quote]

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