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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is school choice in dc. Parents don’t want to drive across town for a decent high school. Homeowners in ward 6 are very interested in raising their home values by touting awesome schools nearby. Everyone wants eastern to succeed for selfish and not so selfish reasons. But the truth of the matter is that eastern doesn’t care about luring parents to their school. They’re content with doing the bare minimum and watching as Capitol Hill parents go elsewhere. That is a failure.  [/quote]

And everyone here who makes excuses for the school [b]and believes that the principal should only serve the kids at his schoo[/b]l contribute to that failure.

They can’t see the forest for the trees and the big picture.[/quote]

I mean, what ELSE is he supposed to do? Just imagine how outraged DCUM would be if a principal of a high-performing school spent a lot of time advocating for an at-risk set aside OOB for the school, or directing resources towards the bottom performers.  I don't even have to imagine, because I already know.

While it is true, and there are examples of, school principals making a concerted effort to get IB families to attend the school, it doesn't follow that a principal is doing something wrong to prioritize the kids *actually at the school.*  I'm not exactly sure how it worked at Hardy, but in the examples I know about on the Hill, getting IB buy-in was a family-led effort. [/quote]

The fact that no one sends their children to their in-boundary public high school because expectations are set so incredibly low is an embarrassment and should be a scandal.

A principal could [b]easily[/b] be serving the children attending the school, while taking steps to be welcoming to parents who expect academic rigor.  This principal chose not to make the barest of efforts. [/quote]

The moment you say solutions or actions to correct, remediate or improve public education is "easy" you expose yourself as a fool who is uneducated and unserious about the subject and efforts to improve it.  [/quote]

You think the principal could not “easily … take steps to be welcoming…” Really? That’s SO SO SO HARD?[/quote]

This whole thread started bc He went out of his way to meet with the family of a prospective student that wanted to be wooed. That’s pretty welcoming, and it’s unrealistic to expect an already overworked person to have to individually recruit families who think they’re entitled to be recruited for a free education[/quote]

The principal and AP at our ES does it regularly.  Seeking information and an understanding of the environment is not “wanting to be wooed.”  No one is asking to treated to gifts and entreaties, or meet repeatedly and take up hours of the principal’s time..

(Is this just one person that keeps describing meeting with a principal as wanting to be “catered to” or “wooed”?!  It’s such an odd characterization of a normal thing.)[/quote]

Dcps schools already have open houses, enrollment fairs, tours, community events, and other ways to connect. Not to mention an ES is significantly smaller than a HS population[/quote]

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