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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^^^^  Well, well, well.  Think of yourself only, why don't you.  My kid got traumatized in DCPS as well as the entire class by unabated bullying.  Get out of your limo-liberal safe-house and come over here, EotP.[/quote]

Step 1. Privatize education
Step 2. [b]Don't admit bullies[/b]
Step 3. No more bullies!  EVER![/quote]

Fixed that for you, PP.

Seriously, private education is so much better than public education because it is selective.  A school that must admit all children in a neighborhood will always have some children who undermine the school's efforts.  If that number is small, it can be managed by the school.  If it's too large, the school fails.

In DC, charter school must take all who apply and must use a lottery when too many applications are received.  As a result, charter schools have not been a huge success either.

If the private schools that accept vouchers are allowed to be selective, they will succeed.  Of course, the public schools that must take the kids who can't get in anywhere will probably be worse off.  Then again, the schools might be better off because they can focus on their demographic and will probably have lots of special ed and at-risk plus ups.

Let's recognize that DCPS could have established gifted and talented programs and test-in magnets in science and math years ago.  It chose not to as a matter of policy.  As a result, it has very few high-performing schools in its portfolio.[/quote]

Yes, let's. This Boston Latin alum from a low SES background couldn't agree more, PP. DCPS could also have established GT test-in magnets in humanities, like the one at Eastern MS in Silver Spring. SWW, Banneker and Wilson suffer without high-performing middle schools feeding into them. No need to wait five or ten years for Deal to deliver.

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