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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't live in the area, truly have no dog in this fight.  Personally as a DC resident and taxpayer what concerns me is the money being poured into these brand new schools which then are barely half full.  Remember when Brookland folks agitated for a standalone middle school?  $50 million later that beautiful, Metro-accessible building has 250 kids in it.  Same for Dunbar, Coolidge, Woodson, etc.  There seems to be an "if you build it, they will come" thought process that hasn't really been born out in actual decisions made by parents to send their kids to these schools.  What seems to happen (from an outsider perspective) is a first mover problem where the predominantly lower income kids who were at the old schools start at the new one, and the middle and upper income families look at that and say "I don't want my kid to be the first (white, upper income black, whatever) kid in that grade".  So all these middle and high schools get rebuilt, and the assumed influx of a more diverse student body doesn't materialize.

So now you have hundreds of millions in under-used buildings.  That's the hard thing to see.[/quote]

It is because DCPS refuses to reckon with the low performance of the feeder schools.  With incoming 6th graders several years behind, a middle school can hope to bring them to grade level but not much more.[/quote]

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