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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]this shows that schools need to be busting their ass to attract and retain high SES/high achieving families. The schools and teachers are going to depend on those super stars to save their ass.  If teachers and schools are going to be judged on PARCC scores they better come up with some incentive to keep these populations.  My kid is only in PS and I am already frustrated with our IB lousy test scores and disastrous PTA organization.  And my kid is exactly the kind of kid they need to take the PARCC on third grade but we will, along with our counterparts, will all have moved on.[/quote]

lol, no. sorry dear, there is no market for "high SES" families in DCPS. It does not work that way. If you expect to be catered to, move to MD or VA.[/quote]

Attract is not the same thing as catered to. Look, in a few years Wilson is going to be filled with IB families who bought during the peak and paid a mint for a tiny 1940s colonial and probably [b]don't have the income to fund several kids in private[/b].  These families will have little tolerance for excuses. They [b]value academic rigor and will not tolerate anything less[/b]. Go to PTA meetings at the feeder schools, these folks are not shrinking violets.  DCPS has about 3 to 4 yards to sort Wilson out before it gets heated.  [/quote]

If they can't afford private school, they'll have to tolerate Wilson or leave DC.

If they leave DC, Wilson will be fine. Someone else will move into the house they leave behind--either someone who will send their kid to Wilson, or not (and not is fine--the school is overcrowded already, and if that ever changed there are plenty of OOB kids who will take a spot there).

DCPS has no incentive to cater towards high SES families, shrinking violets or not. There are no big foundation grants for helping kids who live in $900,000 homes improve their academic performance. There is mayoral control of the school system and the mayor is not beholden to the rich people of Ward 3. Their support is not enough to get her re-elected. And looking too supportive of the interests of rich (not to mention overwhelmingly white) people doesn't help her in other wards. She'd probably be more popular if people IB for Wilson used it a little less and more OOB kids could attend.[/quote]

Your analysis is dated.  In 5 years DC will be majority white.  The Montgomery County schools are no longer a guarantee and the traffic makes moving even less appealing.  The current upper NW crowd will stay and fight for their neighborhood schools emboldened by the lessons learned and victories won over school renovations.  DCPS will have to deliver or be marginalized even further. [/quote]

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Hasn't dcurbanmom been making the claim that DC will be majority white in 5 years for at least 6 years already???

And do you really believe DCPS is concerned about being 'marginalized even further'?  And is such a thing possible?[/quote]

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