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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This thread is very eye opening. How can people in DC subject their children to substandard education all the way through high school?[/quote]

Here is the thing, all this scrabbling over boundaries it is a red herring.  These are the things we need to demand for accountability.  I am all for boundary changes if and only if real measurable standards are in place that mean kids will be moving into viable effective schools.   I in fact think many of us would love not to be trekking across the city and actually care a great deal about all these kids losing in out in the system.

Yes 7 years on, we still don't have a lot of great schools, but I think a lot more of us know what we want to ask for, that in itself is progress.

Personally I am ok with the cluster idea or maybe a modified version where every third or fourth school is an immersion language program and parents could lottery into that one for their cluster.   Otherwise they used the neighborhood option.   I would also like there to be an public immersion covering several languages for middle and high school.

I would also like very focused summer and after school programs in all title one schools focused on kids that would otherwise qualify as gifted and talented.   If these kids are focused on, there maybe a viable option to have test in English and Math.  But right now too many kids don't have enough of the supports to pull them up.   [/quote]

I like it! Do you have any interest in being DME under Catania or Bowser? ;)[/quote]

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