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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The problem with punting the OOB ES population back to their IB schools is that they will be more prepared than the kids who stayed IB in their neighborhoods for school.

Perhaps a solution for creating an EoftP MS/HS solution would be to direct the entire OOB population of the West of Park elementaries into it, instead of telling those students that they have to go back to their neighborhood IB MS/HS.  Concentrating all your WestofP OOB students into one place would give the new MS/HS a critical mass of prepared students who have come from solid ES programs with whom to work.  You could also give priority to kids coming from charter schools to MS/HS---so you could attract families who may have liked IT, LAMB, CapCity, Two Rivers for the early years and would otherwise have done Latin/Basis/private.  Then locate  it in the 16th Street corridor and make it the IB MS/HS for all the east of the Park/west of 14th street neighborhoods from Colonial Village down to Logan Circle.  Add all of those elements together and you would have a majority school population of middle to upper middle class students and/or students who may be lower SES but whose parents cared enough about their education to get them OOB west of the park or into a charter.   Then you can replicate Deal/Wilson.  [/quote]

Add the successful Hill elementary schools as well.

I like it in concept, but I cannot see how you do this without appearing as though you are cherry picking the children of squeaky wheel parents and cutting out a lot of deserving kids.  Maybe make it a test in magnet.  Not necessarily GT, but some sort of minimum proficiency to ensure the student body is prepared.[/quote]

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