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[quote=Anonymous]Here's what gets me about the piece in the Post.  DCPS seems to be absolutely against any new selective admission schools beyond the few that we have (Banneker, SWW, etc).  They argue that doing so well skim the best students and further weaken other schools.  But as Turque points out in his Post blog, DC has, by far, the highest proportion of below basic students and the fewest proportion of students in the proficient category.

Thus, it would seem prudent to do SOMETHING to attract more able students, and a selective admission program would do that by stopping the hemorrhaging to charters, the suburbs, privates, and it would attract students from elsewhere.  Right now almost all of the arrows point out - students leave DCPS as they get older but few enter DCPS as they get older.

But I guess it goes back to what someone else posted on one of the many Yu Yang threads: "Seems the fatal flaw of our city will always be its inability to let successful ventures flourish. It seems there is no way to grow success when the first hint of quality gets torn down no matter who is benefiting. It's ugly, immature and destructive. How does one repair a fatal flaw like this? " [/quote]

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