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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Come on, when you have favorable school demographics, you essentially have honors classes.

Not having honors classes in "neighborhood schools" is obviously a much bigger problem in this city where most students are low SES than in schools where most are high SES.

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Then say what you mean. Objections to SH or EH or Jefferson are not about the lack of honors classes but rather about disadvantaged kids. [/quote]

Good for you, 2nd PP, for c[b]alling bullsht on this[/b]. Educated Cap Hill parents have been whining about needing an invitation-only school-within-a-school for at least a decade.

It’s astonishing to watch, as an outsider (but with kids in DCPS.)   You just KNOW that a majority of this Cap Hill parent crowd identifies as liberal Dems working in politics/policy. Yet here they are, advocating for segregated public facilities

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What's BS, PP, is tossing a cohort of 8th graders who can easily manage high school level work into the very same DCPS middle school science and social studies classes as a gaggle of students reading and doing math at an elementary school level. This bad arrangement is as unfair to teachers as to families.

Most of us in the "liberal Dems working in politics/policy" on the Hill crowd would be satisfied with a full menu of academic honors classes on offer at a pan-Ward 6 middle school. The classes should be open to all students who can demonstrate that they work at, or above, grade level in individual subjects.

I'm not white, but I thank my lucky stars that I was able to attend a test-in magnet program in NYC as a young person (Hunter College MS/HS). That public facility was far from segregated.  Very far.[/quote]

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