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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Her departure is neither here nor there for me. No principal, no matter how strong, can make a middle school with proficiency pass rates in the teens and twenties work for an elementary school population with one of the highest proficiency pass rates in the city (and rising as high SES lower grades families steadily replace low SES higher grades families) without a full menu of at grade-level classes already in place.  Things are going to have to get worse at Jefferson before the school could be reinvented to serve Brent, a lot worse.

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you do realize the school does not exist on the glimmer of hope that Brent students will save it?  They serve the students who enroll.[/quote]

[b] They serve the students who enroll.[/b]

Or they don't, as in the case of DCPS who despite the highest per pupil spending in the country, can not figure out how to educate the majority of poor children to achieve at grade level. Instead, they engage in social promotion and continue the cycle of poverty, underemployment and functional illiteracy.

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you may disagree on effectiveness of educating students at Jefferson or scores of other schools but the focus is on educating the students they have not the hypothetical students they do not.[/quote]

The cycle of poverty drives the poor outcomes.  The schools do not create or perpetuate poverty[/quote]

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