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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The only way DCPS can "force" people to go to other high schools is by economically gerrymandering a feeder pattern that is comprised of more than 80% households at or over median income for the DMV---which, for a family of 4--- is $126,000.  This could actually be done in Capitol Hill, and, perhaps in upper NW to Roosevelt.

T[b]hen ensure that there are honors classes which have prerequisites to enrollment---none of this "honors for all" or "AP for everyone" BS.[/b]  Adopt discipline policies that will remove disruptive children from the classroom and put them in in-school suspension or --for kids who are violent---transferring them out to a school designed to treat children who are struggling with those behaviors.

But none of those things will happen because the "woke" progressives who run education in this city will deem it "inequitable".  The city could have created a very high performing middle school on the Hill in the last boundary redraw but instead chose not to---thus the continuous outflow of Hill kids to charters.

Thus we have multi-million dollar fully renovated high schools in this city (Dunbar, Coolidge, Cardozo) at substantial under capacity, with the middle and upper middle class parents of the city clamoring to be fed to Ward 3, gaming the system to get fed to Ward 3 OOB, or else directing their energies to a few charters.  And if those options don't work out, those parents decamp to other jurisdictions or go private.

The failure to understand that parents (regardless of race or income) who care about their kids education will vote with their feet has never sunk in with the DCPS bureaucracy.  Nor, apparently, has it sunk in with the Council.[/quote]

I’m waiting for someone to demonstrate actual bad outcomes from these policies. Have outcomes for the kids who would have been tracked to honors in the old system changed? Are they suddenly doing worse on PARCC, AP tests, SATs? I haven’t seen or heard any evidence of that; instead, it’s a lot of complaining about the policy without providing any hard evidence that it’s had actual negative impact. 
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That’s the beauty of the plan. Nobody looks for underperformance by overperformers.  The harm is diffuse, difficult to capture, and unimportant to the people it doesn’t impact.

For the people who go through school with insufficient challenge and wasted time, it can matter very much.  But our educational environment is not concerned about academic excellence these days.[/quote]

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