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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I recall reading once that Ellington wasn't chartered for the students in DC.  It was formed to provide an arts education principally to students of color.  That's its mission and culture.  So that would mean that kids from PG might have a stronger moral right to an Ellington education than snowflakes from Ward 3.[/quote]

Can you please substantiate this. Sounds like reverse racism and classism (I'm assuming by snowflake you mean rich kids - who are also entitled to a free and public education). [/quote]

No need to waste anyone's time trying to substantiate this bs as it isn't true now (and not sure if it ever was).

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Ellington parent here:

[b]Ellington's mission and how it operates is governed by a detailed MOU with DCPS.[/b]

Regarding recruitment, Ellington has a full-time person who recruits year-round at all the DC middle and charter schools.  They are at every high school fair, DCEdFest and many other places.  This past year there were almost 700 applications for about 190 offers.

Regarding APs and academic challenge, I would say that it's mostly fine.  There are honors courses in 9th grade and APs starting in 10th (with the occasional gifted kid starting earlier).  The "rigor" varies from teacher to teacher, course to course.  Personally I don't want my kid to have a ton of homework-- she's already in school from 8:30 to 5:00 pm.  Many Ellington students stay much later for rehearsals.  They each take 10 classes, six academic and four art courses.  It's a lot and kids can become very stressed.  If a particular student wanted to, he or she could load up on foreign languages, extra science, advanced math and APs and it would be as heavy a course-load as anywhere.  And of course as a senior a student can also take classes at a local university through a couple of DCPS-wide programs for which the student would have to apply. [/quote]

Who is the idiot in the D.C. government who agreed to an MOU that gives DCPS no governance rights and Ellington's Board no accountability to the taxpayers?  It privatizes governance and socializes cost.[/quote]

I think it was signed in 2000 by Mayor Williams. [/quote]

Wasn't Ellington founded in the Seventies when Mayor Crack was in charge? :lol: [/quote]

Yawn. Our president is a coke head. Why must we always revert back to Bar-ry?[/quote]

Both coke or crack heads and both racist demagogue, too.  At least we're finally rid of one of them.

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