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[quote=Anonymous]There’s already a “pan Ward 6” high school called Eastern that hardly any upper-income parents send their kids to.

A ton of money was spent renovating the school, and an International Bachelorette program was started. How did upper-income folks on Capitol Hill respond? By overwhelmingly continuing to decline to send their kids there.

And what rationale do many of them use? That the achievement of students in the International Bachelorette program is low compared with other schools.

Fixing the physical facilities and starting an advanced program wasn’t enough. It seems that many of these folks also wanted the school to miraculously come preloaded with kids as brilliant as their own — but before they sent their own kids there. A Catch-22 situation if I’ve ever seen one.

Given this history, DCPS should be highly skeptical of claims that upper-income Capitol Hill parents would totally embrace their in-bound middle schools if only DCPS would make X, Y, Z changes.

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