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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Banneker is great - but soon we will be hearing about smart kids who didn’t place there either. It’s also also very different from SWW. This is good - not every school should be the same.

McA is good, I suppose, though it’s strangely located in an area with an abundance of public and private choices, which is inaccessible to most of the city.

[b]And if the big neighborhood high schools are under enrolled, get creative. Start some new programs that share the buildings. [/b]

We need more high performing HS options in more parts of DC!

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]
Seems like with all the walls rejections of highly qualified kids DCPS could easily replicate the experience you describe at another campus or two.

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This thread makes abundantly clear that DC is operating in a scarcity mindset when it comes to high-achieving high schools. We need to transition to an abundance mindset. We need  more academically challenging HS programs. Perhaps they should make another Walls campus (or two).[/quote]

No.  This is not it at all.  Dcps is all about offering “challenging” classes to kids who are ill prepared.  The problem
Is that dcps does not like to let a critical mass of high performers cluster at one school.  As it is there are not enough students prepared for what dcps wants to offer.  These kids try to congregate at a place like walls and dcps does its best to dilute.  [/quote][/quote]

It's called MacArthur.

Maybe the year Latin Cooper offers 9th grade will be a little easier. Sigh.[/quote]

Umm....I wonder if there is a school with a new building on 9th St NW that can accommodate 2x the students that SWW can...[/quote]

Yeah Banneker is our kid’s second choice, followed by J-R.

I wonder how this weekend’s SWW interviews went….[/quote][/quote]

You mean like the early college program at Coolidge and the IB program at Eastern?

DCPS doesn’t lack for ideas for new college-prep pathways. It lacks for [i]established[/i] college-prep pathways. And you can’t just start up an established program. [/quote]

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