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[quote=Anonymous]
A bit of history:  Jefferson MS was a de facto math/science magnet school during the years your friend would have attended. The legendary principal there ran a parallel unofficial magnet program there that allowed talented and motivated students from all over the city. They had advanced classes separate from the regular student body. They were then funneled directly to Wilson HS.  They were nearly 100% African American students and received a great education. But it was all very quiet and under the table.

That program ended under political pressure and the student performance and population at Jefferson plummeted to less than 200 students. [/quote]

[b]DC native, the above that the previous poster wrote is true, my cousin went to Jefferson under that principal and he excelled. Unfortunately, I wouldn’t send my own kid through DCPS or Jefferson today. I graduated from a “well regarded application based DCPS high school in 2008, got my B.A. and Master’s, did TFA for two years and left DCPS in 2016. DCPS is still the same political shit show, restorative justice, out of control kids,  and crappy ness back when I went to school. Charters are no better, I’ve worked in two supposedly good ones. My parents *heavily* supplemented and I am where I am because of the grace of God and good parenting. My younger siblings went to Parochial schools after me. OP, I say this as gently as possible, go private or suburbs. Every now and then I check this forum to see if DCPS is progressing, maybe it is but probably not fast enough.[/b][/quote]

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