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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]these schools you want to turn into magnets or whatever-how's that supposed to work?[/quote]

DCPS has talked about a middle school magnet EOTR for at least 5 years. Hasn't happened yet.

I think what people on this thread probably want is something that would serve about 300 middle schoolers and mimics the SWW HS admissions process -- such as a minimum of 4 on PARCC ELA and Math from 4th grade; an admissions test.

In operation it would be a middle school version of Yale/jail in their minds. [/quote]

What about EoTP?? centrally located, we have an verifiable baby boom here and tons of kids in the DCPS title 1 schools but we are all going to bail because there are no middle school options.  McFarland is not an option even though we are at a Spanish immersion school. The feeders clear out by 4th grade of the strongest corhort and McFarland is going to be awful. But I want a real magnet school that demands rigor.  [/quote]

Idea! How about the non-bilingual track of MacFarland splits itself into test-in and take-all? For those into fractions, that would be 1/4 test-in. DC is smart, but can it really feed a full-middle school's worth of test-in kids today? The bilingual feeders are dwindling and by 2024, they'll be lucky to fill 1/4 of MacFarland with bilingual students anyway, so the test-in segment can expand then.[/quote]

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