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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have no dog in this fight, my kids are at a  JKLM IB for Deal.

The defense of not wanting high OOB number has long been that the students are not equally prepared or they are disruptive or whatever.  The idea that parents now are saying that the primary reason they want high IB numbers is for proximity to their child's friends is ridiculous.  Parents choosing private over Hardy are not concerned with geographic proximity to friends.  Parents choosing Latin or Basis over Hardy are not doing it for the geographic proximity to friends.   They are concerned with the cohort their kids go to school with from an academic and SES perspective.

DC is a school district that has long survived through the OOB process, with the WOTP schools being the beneficiary of EOTP families when WOTP participation was not high.  This idea is not new from charters.

15:17 - your post screams of racism.  If you owned an NBA team and this post got out, you might have to think about selling.  Seriously, you are in denial if you think anybody is buying what you are saying.

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You don't have to agree, but it is so sad that you have to resort to calling people racist because they value neighborhood schools. As if this were not a valid thing to believe in, or a widely held view, or something that most of us grew up with. For example:

http://www.nea.org/home/39774.htm

just google "death of the neighborhood school"

And of course people choose those charters or private as the lesser of evils, as they see it, but it doesn't mean that they don't value neighborhood schools and wouldn't choose the neighborhood school if they had that option. That was pretty clear in the DME process, I thought: people value neighborhood schools as a good in and of themselves.

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I do value neighborhood schools.  But neighborhood school in dcps are not the norm and that issue predates charters.  Deal has long had a significant OOB population, it still does but the reason families send their kids there in droves is not because of the high IB percentage, it is because of the strong program and strong cohort that also are largely IB.

The statements that ring hollow are that it is not who the OOB students are it is the fact that the don't live in the neighborhood, when said by parents tha turn around and send their kids to schools across town. Bit you moved to a neighborhood school I would find it a little less silly.

I am just as happy with my kids going to school with a cohort of well prepared kids from across the city as with a chort of well prepare neighborhood kids. Students that succeeded at highly regarded elementaries that feed Deal are well prepared students that we should all be delighted to have in our children's schools.  Except, I guess, well prepared was not really the problem for many now was it?[/quote]

I don't understand your last point -- someone call Rewrite.

There seems to be an assumption that all students who go to a high-performing elementary school (no matter their backgrounds) are well prepared and successsful by the time they leave for middle school.  From experience, I know that not to be the case.[/quote]

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