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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Anyone been in DC long enough to remember when Jefferson was considered one of the better middle schools?  What happened to that school?[/quote]

The situation with Jefferson was that it had a super dynamic hard ass principal who for many years ran a separate honors program there in math and sciences.  Recruited the best students from around the city and set them up in a tracked honors program that was entirely separate from the rest of the school.  Then these great students were graduates on to Wilson High School. Once this principal left and tracking like this fell out of favor, Jefferson lost its luster.

If a school is not able to attract a good concentration of excellent students either through its boundary ( Deal ) or a de facto honors magnet program ( Jefferson and Hardy of the past ), it has little hope of being seen as a good school.  This says to me that the idea of simply tossing a few high performing students in with large numbers of academically struggling kids is never going to benefit either group.[/quote]

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