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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The fact that Latin and Basis draw people shows that a challenging middle school, not necessarily gifted but aimed somewhere way above the lowest common denominator.  If Latin can't take anyone other than who the lottery serves them, it shows that a challenging school is a good idea and that it could work without test-in and such divisive things.

Take a space and put a program in like this.  I kind of think this is what Chancellor Henderson meant when she made her remarks about middle schools.  A charter knockoff.  Like take the Meyer space now that Cardozo's out of there and set up DCPS Challenge Middle School and put in a clone of a top suburban middle school program, lottery entry only.[/quote]

Some of this model is by design.  Yes the schools have to take all comers, but they make clear the academic demands and expectations.  This has a dual purpose of attracting students who can handle the challenge and dissuading those who cannot.

I'd have no problem with DCPS offering a similar model.  This isn't a zero sum game.  Not every student needs to be an advanced learner, but there needs to be a place for those who are.[/quote]

Exactly. Call it DC We Will Officially No Joke Make this Hard for You Middle School. Teach as if there is no need for remediation, and do remediation via tutoring and assistance programs, not during class or dragging the program out. Make it clear that if you get a C- average for a semester, you have to leave/go back to your inbound school, no matter if mommy cries.  I would try hard to keep everyone there on track of course, but at the end of each semester it is a no excuses program.  And guarantee that certain programming will be offered there even if dollars do not follow students, so, that (counterintuitively) the students will actually follow the programming and bring the dollars with them.[/quote]

It sounds like exactly like BASIS.  Why do we need another one?[/quote]

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