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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People need to stop looking at shift schedules as a money saver, and focus on its value as a tool to reset the population.

Take Washington-Lee High School. Although there are certainly a number of Lyon Village-level households sending their kids there, they’re stuck with APAH and AHC kids who undermine their sense of security and thus their ability to perform in school.

The shift schedule works wonders in this regard. The easy solution is to run IB, AP, Honors and high-level College track courses during the normal school day. Use your regular faculty there. Then hire term-level and sub teachers to run the gen-Ed and remedial courses during the second shift.

On average you’re going to get your families with “skin in the game” for the normal shift, and the less desirable kids in the afternoon/evening session. Sports will run fine; the second shift kids can work around team schedules for PE. So long as you quarantine the second-shift kids into their own wing of classrooms, clubs will run fine as well.[/quote]

This is a fascinating approach, to split the school according to similar paths. I could envision ranking each kid based on the taxes their parents pay, with preferred schedules being granted based on the highest scores (with each dollar of tax paid increasing your score). That might run afoul of civil rights law—probably depends on how the formula shakes out.[/quote]

A property-value based approach will let you reward people who, as PP says, have skin in the game. You also need to give negative points for FARMS benefits, housing grants, value of rent subsidies when in committed affordable units, and the like.

If you can slip this through the courts, and I think you have a real chance with another year of Trump judges, then you can clean up the student population. Going to PW or PG counties, or to DCPS won’t look so bad if your kid is in school from 4:00-10:00 PM every day. Plus a school system that rewards high-wealth residents will keep our county’s best students in APS.[/quote]

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