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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]iMHO, the problem is an unwillingness to aggregate the cohorts from successful elementary schools into middle schools.  The reason Deal is good is because all the feeders are strong and the majority of the kids in those schools go to the middle school.  Hardy also is fed by strong elementary schools, there have been issues with the families at the feeders trusting the middle but that is starting to change, in addition the kids that have entered it through the lottery are also kids of parents that are making efforts to get their children into a strong middle and so you have a great cohort.

Elsewhere in the city (for DCPS- leaving charters out) the middle schools re fed by a mix of elementary schools, you have SH with enough strong kids to support real honors classes and I hear great things but that is the exception.

There is an unwillingness to say “elementaries a, b and c are doing great, let’s put them on the path to the same middle school so they can form the basis of a strong cohort”. One strong elementary school cannot flip a middle school.  And it is about having kids arrive at middle school prepared.[/quote]

THIS. But the politicians don't seem to give a darn.
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