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[quote=Anonymous]I wouldn't write a shorter letter, I'd write a longer one, by a few paras.  I suggest seeing if you can't get the Post to run a piece on the Brookings Report controversy, with pullout quotes from your letter and an embedded link to the full text.  Your response has the makings of a news story, not just an opinion piece on your part.

As a Ward 6 parent, I'm a tad disappointed that your letter doesn't mention us, here in the swathe of the city with the most racially and socioeconomically diverse group of DCPS elementary schools.  Hill parents have done yeoman's work since the 1980s to ensure that half a dozen highly diverse elementary schools thrive.  But the great majority of us still leave DCPS for middle school, seeking more academic rigor than our by-right 6th-8th grade schools provide.

Our DCPS middle school programs don't offer enough in the way of ability grouping/academic tracking to attract many in-boundary families, even as these programs essentially guarantee universal social promotion, a catch-22 for us as a parent group.  Nonetheless, to school system leaders and the authors of the Brookings Report report, we're to blame for the fact that none of our several DCPS Ward 6 middle schools enrolls a majority of in-boundary students.  The catchment areas for these middle schools are majority white these days, yet white enrollment languishes at 2% (Jefferson Academy, Eliot-Hine) and 15% (Stuart Hobson).  [/quote]

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