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[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.

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.

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]

I don't disagree with any of this and agree it's too easy to blame racism or elitism when often parents are just trying to find a viable option for their kids that creates a path to HS and college. That's not too much to ask.

We are IB for Eastern and my DH was totally hung-ho about us doing SH and then Eastern and couldn't understand why I was not sold until I recently mentioned that Eastern doesn't even offer AP Calculus. DH is a proud graduate of public schools who also happens to be an engineer and loved math growing up. Even his rural, underfunded, football-obsessed HS had AP Calculus and Physics, and taking those classes got him on path to a job he loves.

Suddenly he gets it. No one wants to limit their children that much. [/quote]

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