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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] The parents run these schools??? Interesting...... So why can't they run the MS too?[/quote] They practically run them in DCPS. They find and screen faculty. They hire staff outside DCPS and pay their salaries. They raise grant money for specials. They do all sorts of things that MoCo and Fairfax wouldn't allow. But they can't run middle schools in the same way because the catchment areas and schools are too big, and diverse, meaning the the requisite PTA cohesion isn't there and political battles eclipse common sense. You shouldn't have kids (mostly poor and black) who can hardly read in the same middle school classes as kids working several years above grade level at any of the DCPS or DCPC middle schools, let alone all of them (yes, even at Deal and BASIS). If well-heeled parents had the same kind of clout they have at the ES level in middle schools, this short-sighted practice would have ended long ago. [/quote]
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