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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, that is wrong. As of my latest data point, 2/3 of Hardy students choosing between JR and MHS choose MHS.

All "lottery seats" were matched with students attending Deal and Oyster. So the student body will be Hardy/Deal/Oyster almost exclusively. 
[/quote]. Really? Same old story, Capitol Hill gets the short end of the stick on DC public high schools.[/quote]

Capitol Hill deserves [b]better by-right HSs.  [/b]But the idea that Macarthur would be part of the CH solution is absurd. [/quote]

They’ve got great facilities.

Oh wait, you meant fewer poors.[/quote]

It isn't poor people I object to. It's 93% of kids behind grade level and [b]a culture of low expectations[/b] perpetuated by people like you who refuse to demand more. [b]I don't want my kid in classes with kids behind grade level.[/b] I don't want my kid in a school with kids that cannot behave. I don't want my kids in schools where people like you think demanding academic excellence is "racist".

By all means, continue to win your little faux equity battle while kids with options whom you resent find alternatives and POC without options are failed for yet another generation. That'll teach me!
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Are you afraid the kids behind grade level are going to infect your children somehow? Are your kids so delicate that they can thrive only if they are surrounded by kids you consider to be their academic peers?

Seems like you’re the one perpetuating a culture of low expectations….[/quote]

Yes. I'm afraid that being in a school where 9.5 out of 10 kids are behind grade level is going to make it impossible for any advanced work. I'm afraid that schools like that have people like you speaking for them, and that people like you have normalized violence , social promotion and meaningless diplomas, and that voices demanding excellence are drowned out by hollow accusations of racism. Mostly I feel sorry for those high schools because people like you are responsible for their decline and the failure to educate another generation of black DC kids. I've got money, mobility and options. Plus, my kids are white so they don't have to work harder and be twice as good to get a fair shot. My kids will graduate from high schools with diplomas that are meaningful to well regarded colleges. It is beyond me why you are more focused on demonizing people who want those schools to improve than you are schools that are by every measurable and objective metric, failing badly.

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