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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]+1   DCPS is foundering and needs to step up to the plate.  It should not be the responsibility of small charter schools like CMI, ITS, or 2 rivers who everyone is crucifying because they can't handle a load (that wasn't their load in the first place).  Great that there are schools like Latin, DCI, and BASIS, but DCPS needs to step up to the plate.[/quote]

+2.  But I heard Macfarland is supposed to be good, so maybe DCPS is stepping up to the plate.  Anyone know about this option and whether it's open to non-IB students?[/quote]

Eastern HS on the Hill is an IB school.  That was an enormous investment!  It takes 3 years and lots of $$ to get IB status, and yet the Hill (the higher SES families, not the section 8 housing) has not embraced it, any more than Jefferson or Elliot-Hine or even Stuart Hobson has been embraced.

Brookland Middle is a lovely building.  Has it succeeded in attracting the higher SES neighborhood children?  Those whose families are informed and have options?  No, no it has not.  Charters continue to thrive in Brookland because they offer more than DCPS is willing or able to provide.

If you've lived in DC long enough to have a cup of coffee, you know that DCPS's latest favorite way to waste money is $150million on a school with 400 students.  AKA: Roosevelt HS.

This being DC, there's no problem too big for us to pillage the taxpayers in order to flush their money for turds.

Sure.  Get excited about MacFarland!  Maybe this roll of the dice will come out wonderfully?

In the meantime, the smart back-up plan is charter or private or suburbs.

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To be fair to Brookland Middle, at least in Brookland proper, there are about 60 kids over 5th grade, and about 6000 under the age of three (at least it feels like it)[/quote]

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