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[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]

dp:  I don’t know if the principal is to blame.  I do know that DCPS should care and should task the principal with increasing IB enrollment.  [b]Because that’s how a competent school system would work.[/b][/quote]

Yes.  This is half the problem and it's a no-brainer. DCPS admins aren't incentivized to strive to increase IB enrollment, which contributes to epic dysfunction in the system, fueling high charter enrollment.

You only need to look as far as Arlington for a good example of how a competent school system can work.  The county has six right-sized public middle schools, each one with 850-1100 students, almost all of them IB students.  Arlington parents either go private or use their IB middle school.  No charter drama and little in the way of toxic racial politics in the system even though several of the middle schools enroll 25-30% poor minority kids.[/quote]

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