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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DCPS didn't meet the needs of the high achievers, the G&T, the motivated, et cetera.  So now that's a set of needs they no longer need to think about, because most of their schools don't have to deal with it, as they've lost those students to the charters.  Instead, they could narrow down and focus on the bad behavior and other issues in DCPS.  But, they aren't.  Frankly, I don't think DCPS really focuses at all on what's going on in their student body, or what kinds of needs they really need to be focusing on, i.e. the drug problems, the unmotivated, the behavior problems, the special needs.  Their focus, by default, keeps getting narrower and narrower as various groups of students are stripped away, yet DCPS can't even seem to manage to meet the needs of that ever-narrowing group, either.[/quote]

JKLM and Brent do pretty well with high achievers because their 6-figure PTAs and spunky principals see to it  - at least DCPS has the good sense to largely stay out of their way.  If only DCPS and the pols had the guts and vision to add much needed wings to the buildings of in-demand DCPS schools.   Trailers and temporary buildings (more and more as time goes on) on the grounds of Murch and Lafayette for more than a decade is shameful.  The boundary review and revision won't change anything beyond motivating more Upper NW parents to move to MoCo and Fairfax, and perhaps a few in SE around Brent.

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