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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just read today’s Post article on Walls.  This notion of admitting any student in the top 15 percent of failing middle schools - in the name of the gods of diversity and inclusion - is jist nuts.  The problem for DCPS is that in some schools only 1 percent of students pass the national standardized exam.  If you effectively create a quota of at risk students at Walls by waiving academic success criteria, then the result will be diversion of faculty and staff resources to bring underperforming students up to grade level, at the expense of the learning experience of the high performing students.  Or the curriculum will be dumbed down.  Why DCPS seems hell bent on destroying one of the few standout schools in the District is beyond me.  I guess it’s philosophical — it somehow being better to provide ‘equitable and inclusive’ access to mediocrity instead of letting those who have worked hard to achieve reach their full potential.[/quote]

The story was a mess, but did say clearly that the top 15% that you mention were allowed to take the test.  This is just lowering the bar for test taking, not entrance into the school overall.  The underlying hope is that some of the poorer kids from those schools will be able to pass the test.  Now I have no idea if the bar for passing the test is being lowered.

There is already a clear attention to 'race' in the enrollment of kids to the high school, but I have never seen the formula.

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