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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What do you mean? Trogisch is the force that built both schools into what they are! Count on DCPS to hire a clueless, spineless syncophant who will effectively erode all of that.[/quote]

That dude illegally discriminates against kids with disabilities. Good riddance to him. I have no doubt that he both engaged in termination-worthy insubordination and also has a long rap sheet of admission “irregularities.”[/quote]

"counsel out" has become some sort of partisan talking point in these forums.

Does Harvard "counsel out" students when they get poor grades and they leave Harvard?
Does Walmart "counsel out" employees who have poor performance and get fired?  
Do the American people "counsel out" politicians like Cory Gardner who do a terrible job and get voted out of office?

To have a top school, you have to have standards.  We should account for disabilities, but ultimately personal responsibility matters.  Attacking "Counsel out" just means you want "no standards". 
Some schools have to have standards.[/quote]

The problem with counseling students out is this is a public school charged with educating kids once they are admitted.  So the standards for counseling out are quite subjective.  And it often correlates with race and SES.  This is not the same as a politician not doing their job or a Walmart employee not doing their job.  These are minors who cannot control their home situations, how much money their families make or the middle school they attended.[/quote]

Got it. So no standards in any DCPS.[/quote]

Exactly.  It’s not a neighborhood school.  It’s an application school with certain academic requirements needed.

If the kids can’t meet those requirements, go to their neighborhood school or play the lottery for a charter like everyone else who could not meet their standards to get in.

I don’t have any kids there, but it’s horrendous how low the academic standards are in DC to begin with and now let’s just ignore them and keep the kids in Walls who can’t hack it.
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Again, the only academic requirement once you are admitted to Walls is maintaining a 3.0 GPA, which is quite easy given GPA bumps for Honors and AP classes and the overall low grading standards DCPS puts in place.

So this counseling out is not based on standards if it’s happening.  And who do you think they are counseling out?  Certainly not Johnny from upper NW whose parents are both lawyers.  There is absolutely bias in who is not ‘academically prepared’ and ‘has poor behavior’.  Get your head out of the sand.[/quote]

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