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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't agree. The ed picture just isn't as black and white as you paint it.

City demographics continue to shift, and gentrification remains a powerful force for change. Mayor Bowser won't be in office forever.

The ed landscape you describe may have been accurate a decade back, but I'm not convinced that that DCPS and the city council members no longer give a whit about keeping high SES families in traditional public schools after elementary school. If high SES retention in DCPS middle and high schools was irrelevant politically, DCPS wouldn't be planning to open a 2nd high school in Ward 3 within the next few years, mainly to relieve crowding at Wilson.

Once the new HS opens, some CH families will join Hardy families there, via the OOB lottery.[/quote]

No DCPS doesn’t care.  They have taken honors classes away at Wilson with honors for all and more families from Deal are opting out of Wilson.  They have done away with any testing for Walls and United the academic entrance and the admission process is opaque with the city saying they want more kids from other low SES wards other than 3.

The new HS will relieve some crowding at Wilson but don’t expect too much.  My money is the primary motive is to draw OOB at risk kids to better schools and I bet anything there is going to be a set aside at risk preference.[/quote]

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