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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No, actually, not a Brent family. But I've been on the Hill long enough to know the story.

If SWS, Brent, Maury, Ludlow etc. had been permitted to feed into a pan Ward 6 ms with a full menu of honors classes a decade back, all boats would have risen with the tide.

The result would have been that UMC 4th parents in the neighborhood wouldn't be scrambling for scarce 5th and 6th grade seats at Latin 1, Latin 2, BASIS, DCI, Inspired Teaching etc. here in 2022.

[b]No other US city relies on charter schools like DC does.  The arrangement oozes political dysfunction.[/b] [/quote]

If you had been on the Hill long enough to know the story you'd know that DC did not create Charters, the US Congress did. And you'd also know that there is no "arrangement". Charters are, by design and according the law, independent from DCPS.

Of course if you'd actually lived on the Hill for "long enough" you'd know that Maury wasn't what you see today 10 years ago, and LT wasn't what you see today 5 years ago. And none of this was foreseeable in 2009 when Rhee was Chancellor and apparently responsible for all of this. You'd also know the history of SWS and that it is a city wide public school and NOT a neighborhood school so having it feed into SH at the expense of actual neighborhood public schools would have been counter to zones, feeders and established DCPS policy.

But you knew all that because you've lived here since like...2015.[/quote]

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