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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]C'mon Word Salad, for someone who works for DCPS and claims to be as much of an insider as you do, you are remarkably poorly informed.  For 2013-2014, Wilson was 25% white and 8% Asian with 1696 students.  That makes 560 students, of which the overwhelming majority are at or above grade level - and 300-400 of them are advanced.   http://profiles.dcps.dc.gov/scorecard/Wilson+High+School
Not surprising, because there are over 200 white and Asian kids coming out of eighth grade from Deal each year, the overwhelming majority of whom are advanced or proficient, [b]plus some more kids coming back from private school,[/b] plus kids feeding from Hardy, and some who are still there OOB from other wards.

There are not 300-400 advanced kids at Eastern.  If the statistics on DCPS's web site are right, there are probably 50, spread out among several grades.  We want a larger cohort of academic peers for our kids.  And your inability to do basic math or acknowledge factual information does not inspire confidence in Eastern, no matter how vehement your boosterism.

And, frankly, I don't care whether you have confidence in my kid, who reads at a graduate school level and is heading into Algebra II as a 9th grader.  When we talked to the folks at Eastern - and we did - they acknowledged that they had neither a language track nor a math track that would meet her needs.  [/quote]

Really?  Who pays $30K per year for a prestigious private school for MS, only to return to WILSON for HS?  Sure, it's the best comprehensive DCPS HS, but that isn't saying much.  The suburban HS's truly embarrass Wilson, and that's not even accounting for the privates which draw from Wilson's catchment.  Even the upcoming charters are edging in - and the Martha Cutts one is what, 2 years old?

Wilson boosters sound like people who paid too much for their Rockville-like DC real estate.   :roll: [/quote]

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