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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Imagine a world where a principal was focused on improving the lives of the students they served, rather than “attracting high SES in-boundary families like you”. Get the hell out of here. 
[quote=Anonymous]That principal?!

We live on Capitol Hill. My spouse and I met with Brown when when we were looking into the IB Diploma program at Eastern for our oldest in early 2020, before the pandemic began.

Brown seemed clueless about what it would take to attract high SES in-boundary families like ours to Eastern, without any real interest in doing so. He claimed that the program offered "real rigor and challenge to all" repeatedly, and wouldn't answer our questions about Eastern's average IBD points totals. He also wouldn't talk about how many of the "full Diploma" students at Eastern actually earn the Diploma.

Later on, we learned that Eastern's average points total has been mired in the mid 20s, on a 24-45 points pass scale, since the program's inception a decade ago. We also learned that most of the Eastern students who try to earn the Diploma have failed since the get go. We left the meeting unimpressed with Brown and Eastern's IBD program and didn't enroll our child.
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In-boundary families are the core of the student population that the principal “serves.”

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Close, but not quite.  The population that the school serves are the kids who walk in the door in the morning.  Not some high-SES family who might deign to grace the school with their presence… but only if the principal jumps through some hoops. [/quote]

This. But you gotta respect how honest PPP was to say out loud that they feel like the school is owned by IB families regardless of whether they send their kids there. She's dead wrong and the poster child for "Nice white parents" syndrome, but in her defense she's spent a lifetime getting her ass kissed and told she's the most important person in the room. [/quote]

Yeah, but this is just the consumer model of education taken to the logical end.  Approaching the principal with a "win my business!" mindset and then leaving a negative Yelp review on DCUM when the challenge is not accepted.  I can't imagine how exhausting being a DCPS principal must be on a day-to-day even before these people knock on your door.[/quote]

TRUTH!  [/quote]

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