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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This mom of a bright, not-so-rich Brent kid regrets attending a Jefferson open house. Our PTA spin doctors now count me among those seriously interested in the school after learning more, when the opposite is true. I can't see a suitably advanced academic program springing up at Jefferson at all, let alone in the few years we have before middle school. My kid attended a Johns Hopkins CTY camp last summer, finding social studies hard for the first time.

Four fourth graders without siblings are into Latin while two dozen applied. We are an upper grades school community in trouble, folks.

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The idea is that the advanced ( read: on normal grade level/not remedial ) academic program will not "spring up" before your kid gets there.  The idea is that if your kid enrolls there along with his/her classmates from Brent the class/program would THEN be provided. Why wouldn't you want to trust DCPS and take that gamble? I don't get it. Especially with all the PTA leaders telling you they will make sure it happens. Plus, how entitled if you to think an appropriate educational program should be simply provided for you. You have to work for it. Work it![/quote]

Are you seriously asking why a Hill parent wouldn't trust DCPS? I can't tell if your post is sarcastic.[/quote]

DCPS and PTA board members are asking a hell of a lot in instructing parents to work to build an advanced academic program in a school where more than 80% of 11-15 year olds don't test proficient. Why not just instruct us to end poverty in the city? Eliot-Hine has had an "advanced program," the International Baccalaureate Middle Years Program, for a couple years and you don't see high SES families lining up to attend.

Is that how BASIS and Washington Latin got their advanced academic programs, by asking parents to work to build them?  I'd settle for enough charters "springing up" to offer advanced middle and high school courses, like many other Brent parents.

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Just trust DCPS.  It's not like they're letting down families who send kids to Amidon or Tyler (non-SI).  Henderson has been given more than sufficient time to show progress and yet more than 80 percent of Jefferson students aren't on grade level.  But the rest of us should just trust a few well-intentioned Brent parents to fix what's wrong with Jefferson.  Henderson had the opportunity to get the school modernized and implement some semblance of the Middle Schools Plan in an effort to make the school potentially viable but couldn't be bothered.  And what happens when Natalie Gordon can't move the needle in test scores with an infusion of higher-SES students and moves on the greener pastures?  There's no point in putting all your eggs in a frayed and broken basket.  [/quote]

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