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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What is "oxymoronic"? ALex.[/quote]

This. If they aren't hard to get into, what is the point?[/quote]

DCUM will never be satisfied.

If the application schools are hard to get into, it’s a crisis because “what if my kid doesn’t get into one?”

If the application schools are not so hard to get into, it’s “what’s the point?”

The fact is that Banneker, McKinley, and Duke are considerably more successful than most neighborhood high schools in DC. That’s the point. [/quote]

What people want is solid by right high schools and then truly selective application magnets. Not a bunch of failing by right high schools and some application schools that aren't even selective of applicants but are basically used to screen for kids who try and have parents who give a damn.[/quote]

And if wishes were horses, beggars would ride. I have kids who need a high school education right now. You tearing apart a functional part of the current system because it doesn’t match some utopian ideal doesn’t do anyone any good. Instead, as OP said, it causes a lot of totally unnecessary stress to families who will be happy to land at one of the existing application schools.

Even if your goal is a general improvement of DC schools, the way to get there is by improving the schools we have, with the students we have, not waving some kind of magic wand that eliminates the kids who you seem to think aren’t good enough to be allowed to attend their own neighborhood high school, while also conjuring up hundreds of students not currently living in DC who you deem good enough to attend application high schools. [/quote]

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