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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]the bolded statement reads as incredibly privileged.  it should be about providing everyone at all levels with great schools.  (while improving the middle schools could use more attention, my overall impression of bowser is that she does for the most part care about kids in dc.)[/quote]

Incredibly privileged people like us on Capitol Hill (read many Federal employees) deserve neighborhood middle and high schools most of us are OK with for our tax dollars.  Unfortunately, we're almost as far from having them as we were nearly 20 years ago, when my spouse and I bought our first property in the neighborhood.

Our overall impression is that Bowser could absolutely care less if UMC families with school-age kids, particularly whites, bail on city schools, and the District itself for that matter.  Fenty cared, Gray, too.  Not this short-sighted mayor.[/quote]

Being OK with is such a BS target. You have MS and HS available to you. Attend them. [b]They will become OK enough for you.[/b] [/quote]

You first, mate.[/quote]

If the elementary schools are good enough, then why wouldn’t the middle and high schools be good enough?  It would be the same children from elementary.[/quote]

Because the ES kids peel off starting in 5th (BASIS, Latin, private, parochial) and then again in 6th. The reality of ES on the Hill is that ECE is very strong but parents who really wanted to buy in realize in upper ES that the academics are lackluster and behavioral issues get much worse as hormones kick in. At that point a lot of parents who wanted to buy in can't take the risk. In all fairness I think this is also the reality at several HCS as well. This is the fundamental challenge facing DCPS/Charters and education in general. How much (if at all) wills schools cater to or even care about high performing kids? What does "equity" mean?[/quote]

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