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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why are people leaving? Because they believe they are going to a safer, more academically challenging school. Duh! How to keep them? Convince them that your school is as good or better. 
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I think that's what the principal is trying to do.  For example, at my (not very good on test scores) in-bound school, the principal is a literacy expert, the test scores have risen, they have some partnerships with outside groups that allow them to do cool extracurriculars, there's a new playground and the school's been renovated, the early childhood grades have really small class sizes with an aide in every room,etc. There is more discipline (I don't always like how they implement discipline, but the school feels safe and orderly).  The school is becoming more diverse kids (there are now more white, Asian, and Latino kids than before, for example), and the principal and teachers are very welcoming.  Yet there's still a bad reputation--not all of which is deserved. Some parents won't even go to the open house.  What better way for them to learn about all this and get their questions answered than to have the principal and some parents and teachers drop by? [/quote]

Perhaps you could advertise this wonderful school by giving it's name.  Other posters here talk about their DCPS schools, but don't provide the specifics.  You could recruit right here and now.[/quote]

Fair point.  I'm in-bounds for Amidon-Bowen, whose principal was mentioned in the Post article.  [/quote]

Hey, that's great to hear. We're in SW too and thinking of starting a family (so, admittedly, a ways away from school being an issue) and people are already pressuring us to move. I'd love to be able to stay put and use Amidon. [/quote]

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