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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]these schools you want to turn into magnets or whatever-how's that supposed to work?[/quote]

DCPS has talked about a middle school magnet EOTR for at least 5 years. Hasn't happened yet.

I think what people on this thread probably want is something that would serve about 300 middle schoolers and mimics the SWW HS admissions process -- such as a minimum of 4 on PARCC ELA and Math from 4th grade; an admissions test.

In operation it would be a middle school version of Yale/jail in their minds. [/quote]

What about EoTP?? centrally located, we have an verifiable baby boom here and tons of kids in the DCPS title 1 schools but we are all going to bail because there are no middle school options.  McFarland is not an option even though we are at a Spanish immersion school. The feeders clear out by 4th grade of the strongest corhort and McFarland is going to be awful. But I want a real magnet school that demands rigor.  [/quote]

Idea! How about the non-bilingual track of MacFarland splits itself into test-in and take-all? For those into fractions, that would be 1/4 test-in. DC is smart, but can it really feed a full-middle school's worth of test-in kids today? The bilingual feeders are dwindling and by 2024,[b] they'll be lucky to fill 1/4 of MacFarland with bilingual students anyway[/b], so the test-in segment can expand then.[/quote]

That's why all the bilingual schools should feed there--leaving Oyster and Bancroft out hurts MacFarland and makes Deal and Wilson more overcrowded.

I'd be glad to see Jefferson have a test-in component, with core classes advanced and non-core stuff like PE and afterschool clubs mixed. Or have it be all test-in and send the current feeder students to Stuart-Hobson and Eliot-Hine. It would be a good location since it's so close to L'Enfant Plaza and many bus lines, so kids from all over DC would have an easy commute. Plus it would be funny to see the gyrations of Brent and Van Ness parents who say there's no way their babies could make it all the way to Jefferson each day (and simultaneously how advanced their kids are and there's no way JA could meet their needs). [/quote]

[b]DC could fill a true gifted school if it was truly rigours.[/b] Some deal families might pull their kids to put them in something smaller. But it would need to be way more than 1/4 of the space. You need more kids to to be able to pay for the extras.  DCPS would never go for race blind admissions either and if it ever went more than 30% white through a test its not going to happen.   I do think Oyster and Bancroft should feed to McFarland.   As of now, Powell and Bruce MOnroe don't have big enough or acaemdically high performing students to make McFarland Spanish track worthwhile.  We will probably move to WoTP (hey overcrowding) to avoid McFarland.[/quote]

Can you please not confuse "gifted school" and (presumably STEM-focused) "test-in"? My PP was about the latter. I'd love for DC to have the former, but ***they are two separate types of schools**** Getting a few children "pulled from Deal" would not fill a public school for gifted children. Families would likely move into DC to send their 1/10000 kid to a school for gifted students.
What I was talking about was a rigorous STEM-focused test-in school, that would probably need to start as a test-in track in an existing school, and McFarland would be a good candidate to host it, since 1- it is new, 2- so many UMC are extremely skeptical of what its quality will be by the time they child is of age for it and sound like they'll look elsewhere instead, and 3- realistically their stated mission is a fleeting one that won't get enough students to fill up the building soon. [/quote]

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