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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DCPS can do what DCI is doing by sending students at all immersion elementaries to a single middle school. They are close on this with all of them having a programmatic feeder to MacFarland, but they need to go two steps more: route Bancroft to MacFarland and Roosevelt, and close Adams and send Oyster kids to MacFarland and Roosevelt too.

By doing these things, Adams will be available for elementary students (they could do PK-1 at Oyster and 2-5 at Adams or something similar) and more kids would get the opportunity for bilingual education and more IB kids would have PK slots and MacFarland would have more high-scoring kids in its feeder pattern. Deal and Wilson would have fewer kids in their feeder pattern, which is good because they are overcrowded.

Mt. Pleasant would freak out in a way that would be quite unbecoming (all the RPCV parents figuring out how to say they don't want their kids at Roosevelt) and the families with older kids IB for Oyster would be mad too, but the nearby families of babies who are sick of being shut out of PK at Oyster might temper that.[/quote]

Close Adams?  No, that's a terrible idea.

Besides Deal, Adams is one of the highest scoring DC public middle schools (current 8th grade math PARCC scores notwithstanding).  The focus should be on improving what we have; not fixing what isn't broken.

Oyster:  
PARCC ELA + Math
Grade 6 Test:  75%,  55%
Grade 7 Test:  74%,  60%  
Grade 8 Test:  65%,  15%

Deal:  
ELA + Math
Grade 6 Test:  74%,  64%
Grade 7 Test:  80%,  65%  
Grade 8 Test:  74%,  24%

Hardy:  
ELA + Math
Grade 6 Test:  54%,  41%
Grade 7 Test:  59%,  32%  
Grade 8 Test:  59%,  34%

DCI:  
ELA + Math
Grade 6 Test:  61%,  38%  
Grade 7 Test:  57%,  44%  
Grade 8 Test:  51%,  41%  
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The kids at Adams aren't going to get dumber if they go to MacFarland. They'll be fine. Their same teachers from Adams could even work at MacFarland. And there'd be room for more ECE classrooms at Oyster so more kids could start immersion earlier, rather than many IB kids having to wait for kindergarten. [/quote]

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