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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here's a crazy idea - properly resource all of the schools, including academic offerings, facilities, supports, etc.  so parents aren't playing Hunger games over available "good" schools.  Everyone knows the affluent schools get more system support in addition to self-funding whatever else they want to have a "public plus" school.[/quote]

This is simply wrong. The affluent schools get fewer resources. You need to rethink your understanding of the problem.[/quote]

PP who just posted the same thing here. Do you honestly think that if you put the bottom 10% of DCPS kids into Janney they would suddenly improve?? NO.  My kids go to this school.  I will tell you that it has all the ups and downs of being in a large public school, and if your child has all the challenges of being poor they are not going to suddenly thrive at Janney.  Janney and the other high performing ES in DCPS do well because of the high SES cohort and family support the kids have -- I promise there is nothing special about being in those 4 walls.

Lafayette until the renovation was in a horribly dumpy building, with no walls (open classroom), rats, etc.  Parents uniformly said that being in trailer city was a VAST improvement over the building.  Yet, you had people like FENTY gaming the system to get their kids in.  (Same can be said for Murch, pre renovation).  This has nothing to do with the facilities.[/quote]

I can personally attest to that last fact, because Murch's swing space is nicer and more conducive to learning than the old building by a magnitude of 100. And yet one of Bowser's cronies pulled strings to get his kids into school there, knowing full well that they would be off-site for two years, and Henderson let it happen, apparently gleefully.[/quote]

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