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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not reasonable to blame UMC parents with children in DCPS elementary programs for voting with their feet to charters, the burbs and privates for MS in view of the fact that DCPS has made 2 catastrophic decisions about its MS programs over the years:

Decision #1: DCPS leaders have fought both academic tracking and test-in MS programs tooth and nail. They currently allow a few MS schools to offer at-grade level classes for math and maybe ELA, that's it. 
Decision #2: DCPS  has let its only MS program that draws most of its in-boundary families--Deal--to become terribly overcrowded. This year, Deal has more than 600 more students than the facility was built for.  
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It's much too easy to point the finger at parents who run from DCPS after 4th or 5th grade, calling them racist, elitist etc. 
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If any one of the 3 DCPS Capitol Hill middle schools offered a full menu of bona fide honors classes--in science, social studies, math and ELA--from 6th-8th grade, we'd be there in a minute. None does, so we hope for Latin or BASIS.[/quote]

Very true, and black UMC parents often "run' away the fasted because our kids are even more threatened in such environments vs white/Asian kids. [/quote]

This is true for UMC Latinx families as well.  I am sure your white child will be fine wherever he or she or they go, but for us, we can’t take that risk. [/quote]

It's also true for UMC Asian families who really don't want their child to be the only Asian in their cohort, if not the entire school.[/quote]

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