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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was listening recently to someone argue that DCPS lacks equity because the best-performing (and most over-crowded) schools - the Wilson feeder pattern - are in the Upper NW, whereas EOTR schools fail to attract students from there own neighborhood and are routinely closed down due to low enrollment numbers.

Would DCPS be more equitable if Wilson and it’s feeders were also not good enough to attract in-boundary families and they by and large chose privates instead? Would DCPS be more equitable without a citywide lottery that allowed EOTR students to attend schools in other parts of the city?

Obviously, it would be wonderful to have better schools EOTR that could attract EOTR students. But my understanding is that it is not unlike DCPS has tried. Is there something that they haven’t tried which stands a good chance of working?[/quote]

No one is willing to answer your question, but yes, it would be more “equitable” if Wilson and its feeders were like all the other DCPS catchment areas. That’s what “equity” means.  People like to pretend that can be accomplished by elevating all areas, but that has been tried for decades and nothing works.  The only option, which will be pursued, is to make Wilson worse, likely via continued and increasing overcrowding.  [/quote]

It's not that nothing works, it's that nothing has been tried.

The charters that attract poor kids have high behavioral expectations and an atmosphere that encourages academic success. The charters that attract rich kids have attractive course options. DCPS has tried neither of these things at the WOTP middle and high schools because they don't want to suspend/expel kids to get the first and they don't want to do the tracking it would take to get the second. [/quote]

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